- Billionaires
who splurge on professional sports franchises win and taxpayers with no
interest in footing the bill for shiny new sports palaces to help said
billionaires rake in even more money lose again. With the Milwaukee Bucks
holding a gun to their city and state’s respective heads and demanding a new
arena or else the NBA may relocate them to Seattle, Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker
took a moment out from being one of 714 Republican presidential clone
candidates to announce that he plans to sign a bill providing $250 million in
taxpayer money to pay for said new Milwaukee Bucks stadium. Walker's office
sent an invitation to lawmakers and others saying he plans to sign the bill
Aug. 12 at an Free Handout Event at State Fair Park outside Milwaukee. Walker’s
revelation came after the state legislature passed the arena bill on bipartisan
votes in both the Senate and Assembly. In so doing, all involved are caving to
threats by team officials to leave Wisconsin if the deal did not get done. Those
who have seen this bullsh*t play out in other places and didn’t want to be held
hostage and extorted argued that no taxpayer money should go toward an arena
for a privately owned team. Yes, current and former owners are putting $250
million toward the arena, but taxpayers will have to pay nearly two-thirds of
the cost of the arena. Walker’s support of the plan is not new, as he had been
pushing for an arena deal for months. He clearly hopes to be residing in the
nation’s capital by the time this raw deal for residents of his state plays
out, but regardless of where he lives, this merely reinforces the fact that the
1 percent always wins………..
- Hash…it’s
still a thing. If it weren't, customs agents on the
French territory of Martinique would not have just made a record seizure of
hash at the island's Caribbean port. Officials confirmed that a tip came in
that allowed customs officers to find bricks of hashish packed neatly in 13
boxes in the back of a van that arrived in Martinique with more than 600 other
vehicles. Prosecutor Eric Corbaux put the value of the 891 pounds of hash at
about $2.6 million and to understand what that means, just know that this hash
grab is bigger than all hash seizures
combined from 2012 to 2014 in Martinique and two other French overseas
territories, the majority involving small amounts found on couriers at
airports. What’s great about this major takedown is that so far, no one has
actually been taken down. Corbaux said no arrests had been made but the
investigation continued and right now, the working theory is that the hash was
produced in Morocco. The bust came just weeks after authorities in the French
Caribbean seized nearly $875,000 in cash from suspected drug traffickers
arriving from Paris, so France and its territories seem to be a real hash
magnet right now. This incident occurred on the nearby island of Guadeloupe,
where traffickers seem to have taken inspiration from “The Shawshank
Redemption” and hidden their stash of drugs and cash inside a hollowed-out dictionary.
"These recent seizures reveal we are dealing with local, structured
networks that are diversifying their activities," Corbaux said. Sadly,
this mess is now all hashed out……..
- Somehow,
Michael Scofield is coming back to life. After being killed off in the series
finale of Fox’s successful prison drama “Prison Break” back in 2009, Wentworth
Miller’s über-smart engineer-turned-felon character will be revived next year
when Fox brings the show back for a limited run in the vein of “24.” Jack Bauer
returned to the small screen for a 12-episode run and now, Fox wants to do the
same for “Break” with a 10-episode run featuring Miller
and Dominic Purcell. The show will be helmed by the show's creator, Paul
Scheuring. Rumors of the return have swirled for months and now, the network
has made it official. "I would describe it as a bit of a sequel. It picks
up the characters several years after we left them in the last season of the
show. The brothers will be back. Some of the iconic characters from that show
will be back,” Fox co-chairman Dana Walden said. "I don't think Paul knows
exactly where he's going over the 10-episode arc, but it definitely will
address some questions that were set up at the end of the series for a new
audience.” Bringing the show back means explaining how Scofield, who had a
fatal brain condition that led to his death at the end of the show’s
four-season run, is alive again. "What [Paul] pitched to us was a very
logical and believable - in the world of Prison
Break - explanation for why our characters are alive and still moving
around the world,” Walden said. The show originally aired from 2005 to 2009 and
despite its name, only two of the four seasons took place inside actual
prisons. It began with Purcell’s Lincoln Burroughs character wrongfully
sentenced to death for killing the vice president’s brother as part of a vast conspiracy
for world domination. Miller played his brother, who helped him escape from
behind bars……..
- Riot
Watch! Riot Watch! Idaho is not normally a place known for its citizen-led
uprisings, but there can always be aberrations and so it was that an angry mob
of spud-loving locals in northern Idaho lined up
outside a U.S. Navy veteran's house on Thursday to protest claims that federal
officials are planning on confiscating the man's weapons. According to Republican
state Rep. Heather Scott of Blanchard, the Veteran Affairs office has sent a
letter to John Arnold of Priest River warning him that he cannot possess or
purchase firearms. Scott is leading the uprising and spearheaded a protest that
attracted roughly 100 people, including Bonner County Sheriff Daryl Wheeler,
who promised to stand guard against any federal attempts to remove Arnold's
guns. Republican Washington state Rep. Matthew Shea of Spokane Valley also took
the chance to grandstand and describe he event as a "defiance against
tyranny." "I took an oath to uphold the U.S. Constitution and uphold
the laws of Idaho," Wheeler said. "This seemed appropriate to show my
support. I was going to make sure Mr. Arnold's rights weren't going to be
breached." It was a thoroughly bizarre gathering that includes the
protestors breaking out in song to sing "God Bless America" and praying
while waving both the American flag and the "Don't tread on me" flag.
Yes, #TeaPartyfun. Priest River is the sort of isolated, rural hell hole of
boredom that makes sane people think about blowing their brains out if they
were forced to live there and the town - near the tip of northern Idaho is known
for its strong tea party roots and gun-rights activism. With a population of
just 1,700, it’s a place where Veteran Affairs spokesman Bret Bowers confirmed
a letter had been sent to Arnold from the VA's benefits office in Salt Lake
City, but refused to comment beyond saying the agency doesn’t “send officers to
confiscate weapons.” Given how poorly the VA does with its mission to
effectively and efficiently provide health care to veterans in need, it’s
probably a good thing that it isn't trying to take guns away from possibly
unstable people……….
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