- Let
this be a lesson to one and all: If you’re going to stage a coup, you had best
succeed. Otherwise, you’re going to end up in the same position in which Ivory Coast's parliamentary speaker currently finds
himself. Guillaume Soro has been hit with
an arrest warrant for his alleged role in a short-lived coup in Burkina Faso
back in September. The warrant was issued through Interpol Burkina Faso's
military tribunal, according to prosecutor Col. Sita Sangare, because Soro
allegedly offered to give support to coup leaders in phone calls to Burkina
Faso's former foreign affairs minister Djibril Bassole. Sangare said the calls
will be used as part of the prosecution, but they haven’t actually been
authenticated. Bassole has been in the crosshairs since he was arrested and
jailed at the end of September on accusations that he helped support coup
leader Col. Gilbert Diendere, who is also now jailed, but he continues to deny
the allegations. Meanwhile, Diendere has been charged with crimes against humanity
for the deaths of 15 people and the wounding of about 250 others around the
coup attempt, so it’s fair to say that ish has already gotten real in this case.
As for Bassole, he was a high-ranking minister under former Burkina Faso
President Blaise Compaore, who is now in exile in Ivory Coast after being
ousted in a popular uprising in October 2014. Compaore has an international
arrest warrant out for the death of Burkina Faso's ex-revolutionary president,
Thomas Sankara, who was killed in 1987. Nearly a quarter of a century of bloodshed,
violence and double-crossing has created quite a mess, with the most recent
being the September coup by the presidential guard which lasted only a week but
added another juicy chapter of duplicity and dastardly deeds……..
- Someone
needs to remind Kendrick Perkins that he’s still Kendrick Perkins. Perkins is
collecting $1.5 million this season to do very little, mostly sitting on the
end of the New Orleans Hornets’ bench and mean mug an opponent every now and
then. When he does play - which he has done just nine times this season to the
tune of 3.0 points and 2.1 rebounds per game - he moves like a glacier, shoots
like a blind man with vertigo and does little to help a bad team win. So why is
a guy who is contributing so little while making quite a bit of money so
bitter? Because Perk, who is known as a good teammate and a solid veteran
presence in the locker room, is angry with his teammates' effort in his first
season with the Pelicans, who are 13-26 and plummeting in the Western
Conference standings. "It's very disappointing. At the end of the day,
this is not what I signed up for," Perkins said. "I signed up after I
looked from the outside, coming in to a good young team that has been making
strides in the right direction. We got real comfortable. We ain't got long to
make a push." Despite its losing ways, New Orleans is still only 4.5 games
behind the Utah Jazz for the final playoff spot in the Western Conference, so
maybe Perkins is simply trying to light a fire under his younger teammates.
Sure, he missed a month earlier this season because of a pectoral injury, but
not playing doesn’t mean he can’t tell others how to play. "Even though
the West isn't what it used to be, we can make up some ground," Perkins
added. “[The coaches] are trying everything. They're trying to put us in a
position every night to be successful. The effort is not on coach. It's on
players.” Credit for trying to spark change, Perk, but it might carry more
weight if you were higher than 11th in your team’s rotation……….
- The
Waffle House is supposed to be a place of peace, calm and extremely unhealthy
food. Someone should have shared that information with Cobb County (Georgia)
resident Jennifer Mary Henderson, who managed to
ruin the WH experience of a whole lot of people with her act last week.
Henderson was arrested following a naked rampage through a Waffle House
restaurant in the city of Kennesaw, where according to a police report she stripped
off her clothes, hit a woman and threw several platters of food at fellow
patrons. Police, who probably get called to the House often enough that they’re
never far away, arrived and when officers attempted to arrest Henderson, she
wasn’t going down without a fight. She battled back, scratching an officer in
the process, and is now charged with aggravated battery, public indecency,
criminal damage to property and simple battery against a police officer. That’s
an impressive quartet of charges for one person and thanks to her unbridled
rage and possible influence of either alcohol or some sort of illegal
substance, Henderson is currently jailed in Cobb County, Georgia, northwest of
Atlanta. Based on her act at the chain equivalent of a glorified greasy spoon
diner, this woman just might have some deep-seated life issues and if the legal
system works the way it should - and rarely does - she will pay dearly for
giving every last person in the House that night horrible, unforgettable
memories that will likely ruin their enjoyment of one of their favorite places to
eat………..
- Did
no one learn from the empty, hollow skeleton of a movie that was “The Bourne
Legacy” in all of its pointlessness? To refresh everyone’s memory, the decision
was made to force through a “Bourne” movie without Jason Bourne himself, Matt
Damon, and it was a dumpster fire of awfulness that was bad enough that Damon
and director Paul Greengrass are returning this year to rescue the franchise. That’s
relevant because Fox has confirmed that another iconic spy franchise, “24,” is
making its own comeback and doing so without the most important cog in its
machine. That would be Jack Bauer, the diminutive, ass-kicking damaged soul
played so well by Kiefer Sutherland. Sutherland foiled terrorist attack after
terrorist attack on multiple continents, battling the Chinese, Russians,
extremist groups and traitors from within, all while bellowing signature catch
phrases like, “Dammit! I am NOT GOING TO ASK YOU AGAIN! WHERE IS THE BOMB?” and
“WE ARE RUNNING OUT OF TIME, DAMMIT!” The point is that “24” is Jack Bauer and
Jack Bauer is “24,” so hearing that the franchise will return sans J. Bauer is
just no good. “24: Legacy” even has the same important, massive reach of a word
in its title as “Bourne Legacy,” and it too will show counter-terrorism
efforts to stop the world from ending. Fox
Chairman and CEO Dana Walden revealed the news and tried to put a positive spin
on this turd sandwich. “It’s a new CTU, a new cast of characters. It’s a
completely different story in terms of the special ops groups that we’re
focusing on,” Walden said. “It’s a very contemporary feeling story about the
potential to activate new sleeper cells in the United States and radicalizing
Americans. It’s a whole new story.” Hey D, jamming the words new and different
into your statement as many times as possible only reinforces that you’re
making a colossal mistake here, one we’re all going to regret, DAMMIT………..
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