- Ray-Ray
needs to dial-dial down his stupidity. Ray-Ray would be Oakland Raiders
linebacker Ray-Ray Armstrong, who is being investigated by the Allegheny County
Sheriff's Office for allegedly taunting a K-9 service dog before Oakland's game
Sunday against the Pittsburgh Steelers. The idea of an NFLer talking junk or
otherwise deliberately antagonizing a police dog when that player should be
worried about getting ready for a game is equal parts idiocy and
ridiculousness, but the best part of this entire mess is that the alleged crime
would be considered a third-degree felony in Pennsylvania. Armstrong could face
charges by the end of the week for allegedly barking at the dog, lifting up his
shirt and pounding his chest between exiting the locker room and entering the
field area for warm-ups, according to police. Bro, what the hell are you doing?
Are you 12 years old or an NFL veteran? The dog was reportedly extremely agitated
and the deputy handling it was doing her best to keep the canine from going off
completely and making Armstrong feel the toothy consequences of his moronic
actions. The sheriff's office notified the Steelers, the NFL and the Raiders of
the investigation and has already interviewed witnesses and obtained video
surveillance, which captured a portion of the incident. Armstrong was not
interviewed before he left town and has refused to comment on the story, but he
could still face league discipline if arrested. Believe it or not, the reason
he’s even in Oakland is because the St. Louis Rams cut him last season for
committing an excessive number of penalties. It’s hard to imagine such a
disciplined guy doing something silly like racking up too many penalties………
- The
fact that about 95 percent of crimes go unpunished
in Guatemala is sad. That the government is weighing a temporary anti-crime tax
to strengthen domestic prosecutors' offices seems a little desperate, but given
the state of affairs in the Central American nation, perhaps worthwhile. The
proposal to institute such a tax was put forth by a U.N. anti-impunity
commission that’s involved because the United Nations feels so bad for poor,
downtrodden Guatemala that it’s lending a hand trying to fix what’s broken with
the country’s judicial system. Ivan Velasquez is the head of the U.N.
commission and noted that a similar tax
was imposed to finance the 1996 peace accords that ended 36 years of civil war.
The proposal has drawn mixed results, including by a man who just happens to
head up the country's leading industry association. Javier Zepeda leads that organization and you
might be stunned to know that he opposes any new taxes right now. But hell,
maybe Guatemala feels like it doesn’t need any stinking help these days because
its anti-crime and anti-corruption forces are riding high after forcing the
resignation of former president Otto Perez Molina for his links to a corruption
scandal. Still, when ONLY 5 PERCENT OF CRIMES IN YOUR COUNTRY ARE ACTUALLY
PROSECUTED, maybe it’s time to consider doing something new, lest your country
devolve into even more of an unregulated cesspool of evil and violence where no
one wants to visit and those who live there stay mostly because they’re too
poor to get the hell out and find a country to live where at least half of the
criminals are punished………
- Gender-bending
in “The LEGO Batman Movie?” What the hell is going on here? It’s fine that the
children’s building block toys originally wants to lampoon one of the most
iconic superhero franchises of all-time and turn it into an animated children’s
movie….but you cannot freak with the gender identities of key players in the
story. Even though Christopher Nolan and Christian Bale have both said they’re
done with the Batman franchise and it’s therefore available to be picked up and
run with by someone else, it’s just not cool that Commissioner
Gordon, a character who has traditionally been portrayed as male in all Batman projects
and yet now has aging pop star Mariah Carey attached to it for the upcoming “Lego Batman Movie.” Carey is reportedly in talks to provide the voice of Gotham's
police chief, which could make life confusing for fans of Fox’s current Batman
prequel-style drama “Gotham,” which features Benjamin McKenzie in the James
Gordon role. Gary Oldman took on the role in Nolan's “Dark Knight” trilogy and yet, here we have an overly sexualized
female pop singer potentially poised to join a growing cast led by Will Arnett,
who is reprising his role as Batman from “The Lego Movie,” as well as Michael Cera, who is voicing Robin,
and Rosario Dawson, who is voicing Batgirl. Add in Ralph Fiennes as Batman's
butler Albert Pennyworth and Zach Galifianakis portraying the Joker and you
have yourself quite a star-voiced group. “The LEGO Batman Movie” will be the
first of three Lego-based films in the works and is tentatively slated for
release in February 2017………
- The
stress of the holiday seasons can be too much for some to bear. The constant
hustle and bustle, the added demands on time, the push to get so much done
before a given holiday arrives, the financial constraints gift-giving puts on a
person’s wallet….it can be an awful lot. It’s a good thing, then, that an
unidentified United States Postal Service employee didn’t even make it to the
heart of the holiday season before she got her ass fired. This slacker, whose
name will eventually come out because the Internet, was out making deliveries
recently when she had a package containing expensive electronic equipment that
was supposed to be delivered to the door of one Hassan Hamze. It should have
been a simple, fast delivery in part because it was one freaking package and
secondly because Hamze was not home at the time. Taking that box to the door,
knocking and then leaving it tucked behind a potted plant next to the door
should have taken less than a minute, but a minute was something the delivery
woman did not have. Rather than do her freaking job, she did as little as
possible, pulling up outside Hamze's house in Greensboro, North Carolina and
giving the package containing a high-tech lock worth $199 for Hamze’s front
door a nice, two-handed toss out the side of her ride. She might have gotten
away with her slacker-tastic display of incompetence if not for a motion-activated
camera on Hamze's doorstep that captured the haphazard treatment of his package
and amazingly, he wasn’t down with what went down. He contacted the post
office, showed them the video and next thing you know, a person who most
certainly would have blown a gasket if asked to deliver a truck full of
Christmas packages now has plenty of free time on her hands to get some anger
management counseling………
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