- This
is never a good press conference for an elected official to be forced into
calling. Ocala (Fla.) Mayor Kent Guinn was cruising
along, presiding over a relatively insignificant city in the Sunshine State
when his world was rocked by hackers associated with the infamous hacker
consortium known as Anonymous released a list that included him as a member of
the white supremacist group that we all know and hate as the Ku Klux Klan. Guinn,
a Republican, was one of several politicians whose names appear on the list and
while verifying that list could be a tough challenge, even releasing it in the
first place creates enough problems that the mayor felt the need to step to a
podium, step in front of the cameras and begin his defense. "I can
unequivocally tell you that is an absolute lie," Guinn said of that claim
that he rocks a white hood and bedsheet and gathers in the woods with other
ignoramuses to validate each other’s socialy stunted views on race and society.
Anonymous defended the release of the list in an en effort it dubbed "Operation
KKK” through a statement in which it said what many already thought of the KKK:
“You are more than extremists. You are more than a hate group. You operate much
more like terrorists and you should be recognized as such." Anonymous has
made a habit of targeting groups with whom is members disagrees and has taken own
several Islamic extremist-linked Twitter and Facebook accounts through
“Operation ISIS” or #OpISIS. Taking on the KKK shouldn’t really be necessary in
the 21st century, but bigots persist and it’s high time someone did something
about it………..
- In
Disney’s 1994 animated classic “The Lion King,” Timon the Meerkat asked the
very pertinent question, “Who’s the monkey?” In 2015, the animal rights kooks
of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals are asking not who the monkey
is, but who owns the monkey. The PETA ass hats’ concern is that Dallas Cowboys
receiver Dez Bryant is the one doing the monkey owning after the troubled
wideout posted a photo on Instagram last week introducing the world to
"Dallas Bryant," an adorable capuchin monkey. Because everything on
social media is scrutinized far too heavily, the post caught PETA’s attention
and the group contacted DeSoto (Tex.)
Animal Control to request investigation into Bryant’s “possible illegal
possession” of a monkey. “Monkeys belong in the wild—not (for) football players
who acquire exotic animals just to make a splash on Instagram, PETA
representative Brittany Peet tweeted. The problem is that there is no
indication as to whether the monkey actually lives with Bryant, so animal
rights groups calling for Dez Bryant to release Dallas Bryant back to the wild
may not have two legs and a tail to stand on. They’ll probably be met with the
same profanity-laced response that media members received in the locker room
after the Dallas Cowboys' loss to the Seattle Seahawks on Sunday when they
dared to ask questions as to whether Bryant taunted Seahawks receiver Ricardo
Lockette after Lockette was leveled by a vicious block during a kick return. As
always, at least all of the drama is about something really important to
society and civilization……….
- When,
oh when, will TV weathermen learn that their role is getting a good fake tan,
overly coiffing their hair, standing in front of a green screen and making
marginally accurate forecasts around which losers base their inane small talk
in order to feel like they can sufficiently interact with strangers on trains
and with co-workers around the water cooler? Not soon enough to help Philippe Verdier. Verdier will henceforth be known as the
weatherman for French state television who was fired after releasing and
promoting a book ripping politicians, scientists and others for what he calls
an exaggerated view of climate change. Yes, it would seem this guy is the
first-ever French Republican and while GOP knobs who deny climate change may
was to hug him, his bosses did not and his dismissal from France-2 comes a month before
Paris hosts a U.N. conference aimed at the most ambitious worldwide agreement
yet to limit global warming. So where does a defrocked weatherman go when he no
longer has an outlet for his ignorant views on the air? He posts a video online
in which he decries his firing as an attack on media freedom. France
Televisions, which owns France-2, doesn’t really need to say anything publicly
and so it hasn’t, although the word on the street is that the network believes Verdier
had violated ethical rules. But perhaps Verdier’s real crime here is his
failure to have a legit weatherman name, like the French equivalent of Johnny
Mountain or Dallas Rains or Stormy James. He finally has time to work on such a
faux moniker, although finding his next gig might necessitate the Republican
Party needs someone to forecast sunny skies for its sh*t storm of a march
toward its next presidential nomination……….
- Because…..television.
Originality has been dead in Hollywood for so long that it’s no longer worth
discussing and everyone has accepted that the only relevant discussion to have
is which old, defunct-for-a-reason TV series of movie should be senselessly and
lazily revived and turned into a “modern” take on its original premise next.
The answer today is “Star Trek,” which will be forging its way into another new
frontier in January 2017, when a rebooted take on the iconic sci-fi franchise
debuts on CBS’ digital subscription video-streaming
service, CBS All Access. To
tease dorks and lure them into its online clutches, the network will air a
preview broadcast on air, but the first episode and the rest of the series will
be available only through the streaming service. This will be the first time
“Star Trek” has boldly gone online and this new series will feature new
characters traveling to never-seen-before planets. Diehard Star Trek fans can
cling to continuity in at least one sense, as Alex Kurtzman, the co-writer and
producer of 2009’s feature film “Star
Trek” and the 2013 sequel “Star
Trek Into Darkness,” will be the executive producer on the series. Bypassing
television and going straight to online avenues is a way for CBS to try to
latch onto the momentum of outlets such as Netflix and Hulu and a recent Nielsen report shows
that traditional TV viewing is down across
all age groups except among those age 65 and
up. The original “Star Trek” first premiered on NBC on Sept. 8, 1966 and trying
to make it relevant in the modern day is a task bigger than and phaser or
teleporter can handle……….
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