- Southern
Utah officials have found an excuse and they’re going to ride or die with it. Facing
heat to change a canyon's controversial name on the grounds that it, you know,
contains a blatantly racist and offensive term from an ugly, bygone era in
American history, these N-word deniers decided to keep Negro Bill Canyon the
way it is. In so doing, they b*tch-smacked down a new push to change the title
that's offensive to some but a point of historical pride for the state's
largest NAACP chapter. Grand County Councilwoman Mary McGann revealed that he
and his council mates voted 4-3 to keep the name of Negro Bill Canyon after a
black cowboy whose cattle grazed there in the 1870s. She explained that the
vote came even though she and others say the name is outdated and offensive.
Good sense and sensitivity was obliterated by Salt Lake City NAACP president
Jeanetta Williams, who actually rallied support for the name to remain intact because
she and her sycophants claim their position is based on the fact that the name,
while offensive and ugly, makes it clear that the canyon is named for a black
historical figure. Calling it Black Bill Canyon, Black Dude Who Cared for
Horses Canyon don’t appear to have been considered, but maybe they will be in
the near future because McGann says she'll try again to re-name the picturesque
hiking spot in Moab, about 230 miles south of Salt Lake City. This fight ain’t
over, Utah, so print those t-shirts to make a quick buck off the drama and pick
your side in the fight……….
- Someone
needs to tell pop music hacks that despite round-number anniversaries being
freaking cat nip for has beens to try to revive their never-were careers, it’s
OK to say no to the idea of a reunion is acceptable. Oh, and someone needs to
tell former Spice Skanks member and reality karaoke show judge Mel B about this
idea because she hinted at a reunion of 1990s
British pop girl group could get back together from the rocks under whence they
have crawled for the group's 20th anniversary next year. Why next year? Because
will mark two decades since the girl group's hauntingly awful breakthrough
single “Wannabe,” which may have wanted to be a variety of things, but a good
song was never among them. The sensible one here is fellow Spice Skank Emma
Bunton, who brilliantly said that "families and schedules" could
prevent all five members from reuniting. Mel B – a.k.a. Scary Spice – heard
those wise words and rather than listen to their sheer brilliance, she fired
back that it's her "plan" to
encourage celebrations. Appearing on Jimmy Fallon’s late-night NBC show,
Mel B said it's "about time" for a Spice
Girls reunion, a stance she re-affirmed on The Today Show, saying she wants to "gather the
troops.” "When you say it’s our 20th
anniversary coming up, it does make you think, ‘Oh, my gosh, it really has been
that long," she said. "Hopefully,
we’ll gather the troops around, and we'll get to do something to celebrate it
next year. It’s in my plan, I don’t know about anybody else’s.” Hopefully? The
only thing to hope for is all recordings of your dumpster fire of a group to be
simultaneously destroyed and the world to have collective amnesia for the rest
of eternity when it comes to the five minutes these hacks were sorta famous……….
- She won't
back down. No, she won't back down. You can accuse her Cabinet chief of being
the mastermind in the killing of three men allegedly connected to an ephedrine
trafficking ring, but Argentina's president is gonna stand her ground. And she won't
back down. President Cristina Fernandez is adamant that the accusations against Anibal
Fernandez are a politically motivated attack by the opposition aimed at
affecting Sunday's primary elections and while that sounds like standard
political double talk from a slimy, greasy criminal, er, elected official, let’s
give el president the benefit of the doubt. If she says this is a deliberate
smear attempt on Anibal Fernandez, who is running for governor of Buenos Aires
province, maybe she’s right. A news report featured the claim by one of the men
convicted in the 2008 killings that the hit was ordered by the Cabinet chief
via an intermediary. If so, that is some straight-up gangsta sh*t and Anibal Fernandez
is a Grade-A thug. Sadly, the president says she doesn't believe the allegation
and chalked the claim up to a long-running feud with Grupo Clarin, one of Latin
America's biggest media conglomerates, which just so happens to own the station
that aired the controversial report. The likely truth is that the government is
corrupt, dirty and dishonest and those stirring up trouble here have ulterior
motives for their actions, meaning everyone is lying, bending the facts and
looking to manipulate the public, just as it should be in any true, functional
democracy…………
- Boston Mayor Martin J. Walsh is on a freaking roll even
if he’s trying to position himself as his city’s unofficial spoiler of supposed
sports fun. Late last month, Walsh yanked his support for his city hosting the
2024 Summer Olympics, refusing to sign a document that would have seen
taxpayers foot the bill for the inevitable cost overruns which come with
hosting the Games. Within 24 hours, Boston’s bid to be the U.S. representative
in the bidding process was dead and Walsh was one of the main heroes in its
death. Now, Walsh was to drop a ban on dip, snuff and chewing tobacco at
baseball fields throughout the city. With former Red Sox pitcher and mouth cancer
survivor Curt Schilling at his side, the mayor proposed banning smokeless
tobacco products from all city professional and amateur athletic venues. "Kids
shouldn't have to watch their role models using tobacco, either at a
neighborhood park or on TV," Walsh said during a cleverly staged media
event at a South Boston baseball diamond. "Ballfields are places for
mentoring and healthy development. They're no place for cancer-causing
substances." The blowhard politician is right and while MLB players aren't
banned from using smokeless tobacco products, their union contract does prevent
them from using them during televised interviews and carrying them around when fans are in the ballparks. Skoal
and Copenhagen will certainly fight the proposed ban, which would cover
professional, collegiate, high school or organized amateur sporting events and
be effective April 1. Walsh noted that those managing sporting event sites
would be responsible for assuring compliance and violators would be subject to
a $250 fine. San Francisco has already imposed such a ban and Walsh is defining
his target as any product containing "cut, ground, powdered, or leaf
tobacco and is intended to be placed in the oral or nasal cavity.” Left out of
the announcement was the mayor holding up a used Coke bottle half-filled with
brownish juice from the mouth of a dip user and asking who wants to take a
sip………..
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