- It’s
one of those conversations every parent has to have with their children at some
point. Mom and dad must sit down with little Ashley or Tyler and tell them,
“There are bad people in the world who want to hurt you. Be careful around
strangers … and around that creepy, sociopathic next-door neighbor who may or
may not be a cannibal preying on the young and naïve.” It’s a chat that the
unfortunate family living next to Champlin, Minnesota resident whack job Carrie
Pernula was forced to have after their mentally unstable neighbor sent them a
series of anonymous notes, beginning with a missive that arrived Sept. 27 by mail and said: “The children look delicious.
May I have a taste?” It was a creepy letter from a woman who told police she
was upset because the children made noise and left things in her yard and on
her porch. Rather than doing something petty and vindictive - yet not criminal
- such as throwing those left-behind toys in the trash or burning them, Pernula
elected to send threatening notes and - this is true - signing her neighbors up
for magazines addressed to “tasty children.” Had this crackpot stopped with
threatening notes, she would have been much tougher to identify, but police
were able to trace the magazines and arrested her. She spent three days in jail
and you know she’s in trouble because her attorney, Debbie Lang, didn’t even
try to pretend her client was innocent and instead simply called it "an
unfortunate and complicated situation for everyone involved." Yes,
complicated is a good way to describe the many, many psychological issues your
client has, but the case itself, not so complicated………..
- Life
as R&B star The Weeknd is many things, but dull
is clearly not one of them. No, the artist (real name Abel Tesfaye) isn't the
most talented or biggest thing in music, but he might be the best show away
from the stage. Tesfaye kicked off the week by recalling a time in the recent
past when he was hanging out at a party with Taylor Swift and everyone’s it
girl was a little bit drunk, leading her to allegedly fawn over him and be
unable to stop stroking his luscious hair. For a man who recently released his
new album 'Beauty Behind The Madness,’ it was a claim that may have been made
up, but one that faded quickly into the background when Tesfaye pleaded no contest to charges of allegedly
punching a police officer. The incident for which he was charged occurred in January at the Cromwell Hotel in Las Vegas
and according to police reports, officers arrived at the scene to find Tesfaye
in the middle of a fight. It was his first fight of the night, but not his
last. When an officer attempted to pull him from the melee, Tesfaye either was
too locked in the moment to notice who it was or simply didn’t care because he
(allegedly) punched the officer in the head. After pleading no contest, he gets
to avoid jail time, but must pay $1,000 in damages to the injured officer and
will complete anger management, alcohol evaluation and 50 hours of community
service. Brawling in Vegas, assaulting cops, getting your hair stroked by the
biggest recording artist in pop music and releasing a new album in the space of
a calendar year is enough to fill a bucket list for most people, but there are
still two-plus months for Tesfaye to add to what has already been a damn fine
year……..
- It’s
great to know that someone has finally recognized all that 91-year-old Zimbabwean despot Bob Mugabe has done in the
name of peace. The embattled dictator, who has bulldozed national laws,
election laws and the laws of common sense by remaining in power for 35 years
with no chosen successor, was awarded China's alternative to the Nobel Peace
Prize Thursday for what the prize committee called his inspired national
leadership and service to pan-Africanism. China’s ability to overlook Mugabe
trampling the basic human rights and freedoms of his people, crush dissent with
an iron fist and refuse to accept that his time to govern is over, is the
latest in a series of critics of the West who have received the Confucius Peace
Prize. The award committee boldly chose to zero in on the one instance when
Mugabe wasn’t a totally power-hungry dick, tabbing him for his government’s
support of a plan to acquire large parcels of land, many from white owners, to
give to black farmers. Of course, that was way back in 2002 and when land owners challenged the move, Mugabe reportedly
called them "greedy, greedy colonials." His reign of terror began after
fighting in a guerrilla war in the 1970s and come 1980, Mugabe was elected
president by people who clearly had no idea what they were in for. What they
were in for is a tyrannical fascist who has violently cracked down on
opposition groups, sending many of their leaders to jail. The Confucius committee
tried to defend its decision by saying Mugabe has "overcome difficulties
of all kinds and has strongly committed himself to constructing his nation's
political and economic order, while strongly supporting pan-Africanism and
African independence." That statement was presumably issued by the mere 36
of 76 voters who cast ballots for the award. Yes, 36 votes was enough to win
against a field that included Kazakh
President Nursultan Nazarbayev, Microsoft founder Bill Gates and South Korean
President Park Geun-hye. Well played, Confucius Prize Committee, well played……….
- Big
ups to the players in a junior college game between
East Mississippi and Mississippi Delta for doing what most of the dozens in
attendance probably wanted to do themselves if only they had the power. Thanks to
a hard-to-count number of hot-tempered student-athletes, the game between these
two heated rivals was terminated in the final minute of the first half with
East Mississippi ahead 48-0. The Lions had that massive lead when running back
D.J. Law was tackled out of bounds late in the second quarter and when
attempting to get up, he was shoved back to the ground while still out of
bounds. Because #dudesbeingdues, Law responded to the unnecessary shove by
attacking his assailant and because #dudesbeingdudes, several Mississippi Delta
players joined the altercation. From there, the obvious happened as EMCC's
bench emptied and a full-scale football riot broke out. You know a sporting
event has gone off the rails when the police have to step in to regain control on
the field and with the assistance of coaches and administrators, officers were
eventually able to retake the field and restore order. The officiating crew
then held a hurried meeting about how to handle the situation and the zebras
eventually decided to call the game. Credit to Law for his very smart reaction
that instigated a fight so massive that the Lions, ranked third in the country
after winning a national championship last season, have been banned from the
Mississippi Association of Community and Junior Colleges playoffs, meaning they
won't be defending any titles this season. But when Law’s kids ask him some day
about why everyone knows who he is and none of them seem to think too highly of
him, he can tell them that he’s infamous for selfishly ruining a sure win and
his team’s season all because he had to be governed by testosterone instead of
intelligence in the heat of competition. Well done, idiot………
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