- Sepp
Blatter: delusional, defiant and corrupt to the end. His tenure as FIFA
president has been baptized and bathed in corruption since its outset and after
apparently dodging toe corruption charges brought by the United States against
virtually every other official in his heinous outfit, Blatter agreed to step
down…in a few months. That was this summer, but the year couldn’t even finish
before Blatter’s reign of terror hit a new low in the form of the Swiss
Attorney General opening criminal proceedings against him on "suspicion of
criminal mismanagement." Calling what Blatter has (allegedly) done with
FIFA is a bit like calling Charles Manson a slightly temperamental group
leader. A statement released by the Office of the Attorney General (OAG) of
Switzerland confirmed it was examining a contract signed by Blatter with the
Caribbean Football Union and an alleged "disloyal payment" of $2
million to UEFA president Michel Platini, one of many times Blatter has been
involved in shady dealings. With former senior FIFA official Jack Warner indicted
in the wide-ranging bribery scandal, Platini and Blatter caught up in this mess
and who knows what the hell else on the way, Blatter continues to insist that
he won't step down early and will stay on until a new president can be eected
next year. His lawyer, Richard Cullen, said that "no mismanagement
occurred,” which is a massive pile of bullshit to shovel even for a high-priced
criminal attorney. "We're confident that when the Swiss authorities have a
chance to review the documents and the evidence they will see that the contract
was properly prepared and negotiated by the appropriate staff members of FIFA,”
Cullen said in a statement, presumably with the pants from his $5,000 suit
bursting into flames. The OAG confirmed that it had conducted a search at FIFA
headquarters with the help of the police -- including Blatter's office -- and
seized data showing Blatter made “a
disloyal payment of two million Swiss Francs to Michel Platini.” Stay classy,
Sepp……….
- The
world’s smartest people are still not in the business of committing crimes for
a living. While the smarter folks are off doing legal ish, people like Ohio
residents John Mogan and Ashely Duboe are
committing crimes and then doing the police’s work by serving up evidence of
their evil deeds hot and fresh on social media. Mogan, a recent parolee of
Ohio’s fine correctional system, and Duboe, his girlfriend, are accused of
robbing an Ohio bank last week and these two would-be Mensas apparently never
thought that posting photos on Facebook of themselves with wads of cash in the
days after the crime was a bad idea. Police say the photos helped them identify
and locate their suspects and charge them with robbing the Savings Bank in
Ashville, just outside of Columbus. According to the long arm of the law, Mogan
made off with an undetermined amount of cash after he entered the bank wearing
a black hoodie and handed the teller a note demanding cash. Based on the
evidence we now have, he probably would have found another way to f*ck up and
get himself caught even without his social media stupidity, but he posted a
photo on his Facebook page that shows him with fans of cash in each hand as he
embraces Duboe. As if that weren’t enough, he posted another photo several days
later showing himself with a wad of bills in his mouth. “That's called a
McStack,” he allegedly wrote. “I'm doing rrree=aaaaalll) good.” But wait,
there’s more. Other photos posted to the Facebook page show Mogan pretending
that the brick of cash is a phone as well as his lunch. Pickaway County Sheriff
Robert Radcliff and his crew have never had an easier case to crack……..
- Anyone
who thought the Fast & Furious franchise might be done or at least ready to wrap up
with the untimely death of Paul Walker and a nice, neat place at which to bring
the seven-movie series to a close….nope. Vin Diesel has revealed that the
franchise will indeed end….with "one last trilogy.” Earlier this year, “Furious 7” became the franchise's
most successful installment yet, grossing over $1.512 billion at the box
office. That number ranks fifth on the all-time list behind “Avatar,” “Titanic,” “Jurassic
World” and “The Avengers.”
Diesel also serves as a producer on the movies as well as starring in them and previously
confirmed that the eighth film in the series will be released on April 14, 2017.
"We're going to make the best movie you've ever seen!" was his
promise in April. That was clearly a lie because no “Fast & Furious” movie
is ever going to rank among the best in cinematic history, but the movie has
lurched along since then and still doesn’t have a director. "My producing
partner Neal [H.Moritz] would love for me to just sign off on a director, but
this is too special a franchise, so these matters have to be very carefully
handled. To be clear, NO ONE has been offered to helm Fast 8 yet... let alone
seen a script,” Diesel wrote in a Facebook post. : "Universal has been so
good to me and so trusting of the vision... they have been like family... I
promised the studio I would deliver one last Trilogy to end the saga."
The best Diesel has done so far is to claim that he, Moritz
and Universal had been "mapping out the future of our saga" over the
weekend, "including the announcement of it's (sic) respective directors."
More action, less bluster, V. Fans will pay to see whatever you crank out, so
just get on with it……….
- Look
at Venezuela and Colombia, making nice. The South American neighbors and
linchpins in the global drug trade have been at odds for a long time, but maybe
they can be friends again now that Venezuela has agreed to let more than 1,500
Colombians return as legal residents after they were deported during an August
crackdown on the border. According to the regional group UNASUR, Venezuelan President/despot
Nicolas Maduro is willing to allow those Colombians to come back and normalize
their legal status with the help of his government. The reversal comes on week after
Maduro met with Colombia's president and they agreed to send back their ambassadors
who were recalled amid the dispute that has paralyzed trade and movement along
the border. Venezuela really kicked things up a notch, closing border
crossings, deploying troops and deporting some Colombian nationals as part of
what it calls an initiative to combat smuggling and crime. It’s funny because
drugs exist in massive quantities in both countries, but it’s cute that either
side thinks the other is the major problem here. Oh, and there’s also the issue
of how many of the deported Colombians will want to return after being given the
boot, but how could you not want to come back to a country that has treated you
so warmly? Good times all around………
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