- Brazil
loves its soccer. One Brazilian soccer referee also appears to love his guns as
if he were an honorary foreign member of the National Rifle Association. Meet Gabriel
Murta, a referee for a lower-tier Brazilian league, a man who clearly laid down
the law during a match over the weekend. It all began when Murta was kicked and
slapped by players from lower-league Amantes de Bola. As if that weren't enough
for a guy making a few measly bucks for a second job, the manager bum-rushed
the pitch demanding a red card and Murta decided he’d had just about enough. He
allegedly responded by sprinting to the locker room and coming back with a gun
that he then pointed at his tormentors. It’s worth noting that this guy is a
police officer in his day job, so he just might have a God complex or a
penchant for macho behavior, but his macho act has now been ordered to undergo
psychological testing before the Minas Gerais Football Federation decides on a
punishment. Punishment? For making soccer interesting? Just imagine how much
more watchable every match would be if the refree were packing heat and rather
than issue a red card, he might send red blood flowing onto the field with his
Glock. “The Minas Gerais Football Federation has already summonsed the referee
and a psychologist to a meeting, and I'm going to talk with him,” said Giuliano
Bozzano, president of the local referees association. “What's happened is obviously
not a common occurrence, and I don't want to rush into anything. At the moment
it happened, he's opted for getting his gun because in his view it was a
question of controlling a situation.” Yes, because guns always bring calm to
any situation………..
- Speaking
of police officers who don’t act like zealous, hotheaded, super-macho
a-holes….meet Roeland Park (Kansas) police officer Zack Stamper, who was doing
his job when he was dispatched to investigate a report of a suspicious person
in a park. What he found was Samuel Meixueiro a homeless man forced to walk
several hours a day to his job as a liquor store cashier. Given the frequent
links between homeless people and alcohol abuse, the idea of a homeless dude
working at a liquor store might seem like a bad idea. Yet it seems to be
working so far for Meixueiro. However, his new gig hasn’t yet gotten him fully
back on his feet and that’s what landed him in that park. When Stamper saw his
plight, he was touched and gave Meixueiro a bicycle to ride to work. But the
officer didn’t stop there and threw in a duffel bag to replace Meixuero's
suitcase, which had a broken zipper. It was a kind gesture that brought Meixueiro
to tears, with the homeless man saying he's been staying in a church while
trying to save money for an apartment. Credit Stamper for listening to Meixueiro
when he explained his situation and for driving Meixueiro to his job the first
day they met. From there, the officer retrieved a duffel bag from his basement
and a bicycle from the department's assortment of surrendered or abandoned
ones. He cleaned up the bike, inflated its tires and took both the bike and the
bag to the liquor store to surprise his new friend. It was the sort of kindness
that people have come to expect from the Midwest………
- Apology
not accepted, Rage Against The Machine bass player
Tim Commerford. You can apologize all you want for the fact that your band
inadvertently led to the creation of Limp Bizkit, but you cannot uncook that
Chocolate Starfish and the Hotdog Flavored Water. Limp Bizkit lead vocal hack
Fred Durst has spoken in the past about the influence Rage Against The Machine
have had on him and while a band cannot possibly control the people who listen
to its music or what those people do with the influence you have on them. Limp
Bizkit regularly cover 'Killing In The Name' in their live sets and while
that’s something for which to be embarrassed, an apology doesn’t begin to cover
it, not when at a 2014 live gig in New York, Durst praised Rage Against the
Machine and dedicated a song "to the rap-rock band that started this
shit." Commerford was asked about the connection and sounded contrite -
just not contrite enough. "I do
apologize for Limp Bizkit," Commerford said. "I really do. I feel
really bad that we inspired such bullshit." Ironically, Commerford might
be better able to tolerate this Limp Bizkit connection because he seems to live
under the mistaken impression that these hacks have split up. "They're
gone, though. That's the beautiful thing. There's only one left, and that's
Rage, and as far as I'm concerned, we're the only one that matters," Commerford
added. if only that were true, bro. Sadly, Durst and his stupid red, backwards
Yankees hat are still tormenting ears around the world………
- While
Vlad Putin is away, Ukraine don’t play. With the Russian despot in New York for
a weekend of United Nations keggers and toga parties, Ukraine banned Russian
airlines from flying into the country in an effort to pressure Moscow over its
backing of rebels in eastern Ukraine. The Ukrainian government b*tch-slapped
the transportation industry when Cabinet ministers prohibited transit flights
of Russian airlines via Ukraine, "if they contain military goods, dual use
or Russian military manpower," according to a statement by the government.
Who are the bold visionaries just begging for another Putin-led invasion? For
one, Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk deserves credit. "Russian
aircraft with Russian tricolor have nothing to do in Ukrainian airports," Yatsenyuk
said at the meeting. This is no weak-ass ban, either; it will include Russia's
largest carrier, Aeroflot, and is set to take effect October 25. Even with
Putin sipping $25 vodka and tonics in Manhattan while giving death stares to
Barack Obama across the room, Russia fired back quickly and Moscow called the
ban an act of "lunacy." "Suspension of air service between
Russia and Ukraine would be another act of insanity," Kremlin Spokesman
Dmitry Peskov proclaimed. "Looking back at the past 20 months, we cannot
deny a hypothetical possibility of such acts of lunacy on the part of
Kiev." Look at our man D-Money, throwing around vague, multisyllabic terms
like “hypothetical possibility” and glossing over the fact that nearly 8,000
people have lost their lives as a result of the fighting in eastern Ukraine -
with Russia at the center of the insanity. Kiev and international monitors
insist the ceasefire agreement between the military and separatists in the
eastern part of the country is still holding, but Putin can fix that in a hurry
once he gets home………..
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