Tuesday, November 10, 2015

Pothead v. giant NFL flag, Canada taking a big dump and Busta Rhymes bustin' heads


- There are few places where elitism and arrogance are more of a prerequisite than Yale University. The rich, entitled 1-percenters who call Yale their home for college go there because they think they’re better than everyone else and they want a school they think is better than every other school. So why is it such a big deal that the bros at the campus’ chapter of the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity had themselves a very exclusionary party recently? The storm began when the fraternity turned a woman away from a party because she was not white. According to the chick who apparently wasn’t cool enough or light-skinned enough for the SAE bros, a fraternity brother at the party said they were looking for "white girls only." As one might expect from a bunch of future senators, lawyers and chief executive douche bags, the fraternity denies the brother said that. Not everyone seems to believe them, based on the hundreds of Yale students and supporters who marched across campus to protest what they see as racial insensitivity at the Ivy League school. The so-called "March of Resilience" followed several racially charged incidents at Yale and came shortly after the president of the University of Missouri stepped down following growing racial strife on his campus. At the Yale march, students held signs with slogans such as "Don't Look Away” and they chanted in unison,  "We out here. We've been here. We ain't leaving. We are loved," as they marched from the Afro-American Cultural Center across campus and past the Sigma Alpha Epsilon house. Further fueling this fire was an email from a faculty member who objected to a request from the Intercultural Affairs Committee that students avoid wearing racially insensitive Halloween costumes, such as Native American headgear, turbans or blackface. Man, if you can't be a heinous racist on a college campus where you’re paying $50,000 a year to attend, then where can you be a bigot………….


- Is he really Busta Rhymes, or is he Busta Head Open? That depends on whose story you believe in the tale of the past-his-prime rapper known as Trevor Tahiem Smith Jr. and the dude at whose head Smith allegedly hurled a bottle of protein shake at a New York City gym earlier this year. Smith, a.k.a. Busta Rhymes, has pleaded guilty to harassment after being accused of the bottle chuck. It allegedly went down at Steel Gym in the neighborhood of Chelsea at around 8:30 p.m., at which time Smith allegedly found himself in a confrontation with a gym employee. In an act that typifies the Godsmack-listening, sleeves-eschewing, ‘roid-raging creature that is Gym Guy, Smith allegedly threw a carton of strawberry-flavored protein drink at the man's head, leaving the victim bruised. The pec-popping ragers who carry around gallon jugs of water with them throughout the day and gorge on meals featuring red meat, white meat and more meat because protein is king often have enough ‘roids coursing through their veins to put them on the edge of a full-on emotional explosion any time of the day, so crossing them is a dicey proposition. That gym lackey/glorified towel-picker-upper is lucky Rhymes picked a cardboard jug of protein mix and not a medicine ball or this could have ended badly. Smith was initially d charged with felony assault following the incident, but had the charge downgraded to harassment, which is a misdemeanor.  "The criminal charges, especially charging him with a felony, was a bunch of bull," the rapper's lawyer, Scott Leemon, said. "Busta and I are glad the district attorney’s office agreed to drop all the criminal charges." Big ups for not using your client’s actual legal name even though this is, ya know, an official legal matter, counselor……….
 

- Looks like you picked a winner, Canada. When selecting a new environment minister, you want someone who is going to look after your ecosystem, treat it with care and responsibility and make sure that no one is polluting the planet in ways that are wholly avoidable and irreversible. Oh, and one who will approve Montreal's plan to discharge 2.1 billion gallons of untreated sewage into the St. Lawrence River. Enter Environment Minister Catherine McKenna, who had barely taken office when she revealed that she's asking the city to implement several measures before dumping the waste water, including monitoring the discharge and improving emergency-planning clean-up measures. Right, because you can totally eliminate all potential negative effects of dumping raw sewage into a river if only you tighten up those clean-up measures and keep tabs on how much literal crap you’re dumping into the water. McKenna capitulated after Montreal Mayor Denis Coderre said the dump is necessary because the city must temporarily close a large sewer that feeds sewage to a treatment facility. In an extremely shady election-related move, the previous government suspended the dumping plan during the campaign, only to revive it once the people had cast their ballots. Well-played, Canada. U.S. Sen. Charles Schumer, a New York Democrat whose state could see possible impacts from the tainted river water, had asked U.S. environmental regulators to work with Canada to stop it, but the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency insists that it has no regulatory authority, making this the first time ever America has allowed itself to be bullied by Canada when than poseur ass hat Justin Bieber isn’t involved………


- We all know that guy. We all hate that guy. Daniel Justin Raboni of North Palm Beach, Florida is that guy. That guy, simply put, is the one whose happiness in life is far too dependent on the success or failure of his favorite football team. That guy hates his life, he’s bitter that things haven’t turned out the way he hoped, he can’t stand his kids, he’s sick and tired of his wife and his job sucks, so the only thing that makes him feel better is the three-hour span on Sunday when his team takes the field and he can escape from the rest of his crappy life. When that guy’s team wins, he’s peaking for the rest of the week and none of the losers around him can bring him down. But when his team loses, look the hell out. You get scenes like the one that went down just after the New York Giants beat the Buccaneers 32-18 Sunday evening in a defeat plagued by fumbles, penalties and just one touchdown for Raboni’s beloved Buccaneers. After watching his team look like the last-place squad everyone had them pegged as entering the season, Raboni decided to take a stand and make a statement. Unfortunately for Raboni, he’s a moron and therefore, his plan crashed and burned - or didn’t burn, as it were. He was arrested and charged with felony criminal mischief and marijuana possession after attempting to set an oversized Tampa Bay Buccaneers flag on fire, a flag located outside Raymond James Stadium. The red banner features a skull and two crossed cutlasses and measures about 80 feet by 50 feet. It hangs from a 15-story pole and it became Raboni’s target for his disappointment in the team it represents. Raboni attempted to see the flag on fire, but an anonymous tipster alerted police to the fact that someone was attempting to torch the $26,000 flag outside the Bucs' corporate offices and from there, it was only a matter of time before it ended badly. The fire-retardant flag did not actually go up in flames and only a small portion of it was damaged. The fact that Raboni was either under the influence of drugs or was planning to be soon after his attempted feat of strength based on the pot possession charge should surprise exactly no one, but as always, at least he had a good reason for trying to ruin his own life……….

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