- Riot
Watch! Riot Watch! And if you didn’t know how real sh*t can get at a lignite mine in western Germany, consider yourself
educated. For that, you can thank some enviro-kooks who stormed the mine in
question to protest the use of coal, a major source of greenhouse gases.
Several hundred people from a group calling itself EndeGelaende — which loosely
translates as "it's finished now" — bum-rushed a police line in
Garzweiler, west of Cologne, sparking off a contentious scene that saw officers
use pepper spray to stop the angry mob. Stopping environmental activists isn't
exactly the same as subduing an angry mob of impoverished people who want to
storm the presidential palace because they’re starving and believe their
elected leader isn't doing anything to help them feed their families, so the
pepper spray isn't much of a surprise. A spokesman for German energy company
RWE confirmed that several huge bucket-wheel excavators used at the open-pit
mine had to be shut down for safety reasons on account of ignorant fools
running around unencumbered on the site. Company spokesman Lothar Lambertz added
that RWE canceled plans to bring employees onto the site to rally in favor of
coal mining, likely in part to avoid exacerbating the existing tensions on the
site and partly because RWE is a massive corporation that can do whatever the
hell it wants, therefore meaning it doesn’t really need to win anyone over when
it comes to the company’s inherent right to keep right on mining coal and
polluting the environment……….
- Prayer
works. For the millions of people around the planet who have been praying
fervently to their respective deities of choice in recent weeks, those calls to
the heavens have been answered. Yes, Nickelback
have canceled their upcoming world tour. The hack Canadian arena rock
poseurs were due to begin their global trek on
Sept. 30, but those plans were axed because frontman Chad Kroeger, the man who
sounds like he’s passing a kidney stone while taking a massive dump every time
he sings and whose man perm and d-baggish bedazzled jeans over the years have
been just a few of his terrible style choices, has failed to recover from
surgery he had on his voice box earlier this summer. One has to wonder
how strong the temptation was for the doctor who performed that surgery to just
rip Kroeger’s voice box out of his throat, crush it into a million pieces and
save the world from ever having to hear his guttural, eardrum-wrecking
“singing” ever again. But the surgeon stuck to the Hippocratic oath, Kroeger
kept his voice box and yet, it hasn’t healed. Nickelhack to cancel its North American tour dates in June after Kroeger was
diagnosed with a vocal cyst and for those whose idea of fun is bumping around
the Internet gleaning information from the websites of the world’s worst bands,
the Hack posted a statement on its site announcing it was pulling the plug on
the world tour. ''Nickelback is forced
to cancel all remaining dates for the 2015 No Fixed Address Tour due to an
extended period of vocal rest ordered for lead singer Chad Kroeger.” Who
says there’s no good news in the world these days………
- If
you’re not smart enough to know that the clinical
psychologist who’s treating you in a makeshift office in the basement of his
Staten Island home isn't a real clinical psychologist, then maybe you deserve
what you get. That includes all of the more than 100 patients treated by a New
York City man police accuse of posing as a clinical psychologist, prescribing antidepressants
and sometimes even calling pharmacies himself to avoid the need for a
state-issued prescription pad. Detectives began investigating this would-be
Sigmund Freud after a few patients finally pulled their heads out of their
asses long enough to look at the clues staring them in the face and speculate
that their beloved doctor may not be licensed. Acting Richmond County District
Attorney Daniel Master says Lee-Edwards never had a medical license and
previously worked as flight attendant, labeling old Siggy Fraud a
"dangerous scam artist." There doesn’t seem to be a lot of meat on
the bone when it comes to defending this particular suspect because even
Lee-Edwards’ own attorney could do no better than arguing that there is no
evidence his client harmed anyone. Oh, and Lee-Edwards was also “just trying to
help people in the community.” See? It’s all good if you lie to people about
being a medical professional and dispensing drugs that alter people’s
psychological function if your intentions are good. Lee-Edwards pleaded not
guilty on criminal impersonation, fraud, drug possession and other charges, a
defense that would seem to have a few holes in it before the trial even begins.
But denying until cornered with no means of escape is kind of the American way………
- Will
the shocking news never stop? Following reports that
one-third of medals in endurance races at Olympics and world championships were
won by athletes who have recorded suspicious blood readings, the World
Anti-Doping Agency has begun investigating one of the dirtiest sports in the
world for the umpteenth time. Actually, can WADA begin investigating track and
field if it never really stopped? Because WADA agents spend more time around
track and field athletes than the cleats on the athletes’ feet, so news of the
analysis of the results of 12,000 blood tests involving 5,000 athletes from
2001 to 2012 being leaked from an International Association of Athletics
Federations database was less a world changer and more of a continuation of the
way the world works. An independent analysis of the leaked results concluded
that 800 were suspicious, to which an embarrassed IAAF responded with a
detailed denunciation of the reports. That didn’t sway WADA, which said in a
statement that an independent commission has already started work on
investigating the claims and will be supported by WADA staff "familiar
with analytical results, testing and the Athlete Biological Passport." However,
the agency admitted that “no test data derived from the IAAF database prior to
the adoption of the ABP in 2009 can be considered to be proof of doping.” The
independent commission will work to obtain a copy of the leaked database and a
copy of the report prepared by two Australian scientists who analyzed the
leaked test results. Should it (and it will) unearth data showing that top
athletes sought an unfair advantage through a pill or the business end of a
needle, it will be merely the latest black eye for a sport whose previous black
eyes never seem to heal fully before it’s punched in the face by controversy
again………….
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