- It
feels like just yesterday we were all talking about a college football player
with too much time and too little intelligence on his hands doing something
criminal and getting himself kicked off his team. That’s probably because it
was yesterday and yet, here we are having the exact same conversation one day
later about a pair of ass hats/Kansas University
football players who were arrested after allegedly robbing a fellow KU student
a 2:25 a.m. Police responded to a report of a robbery outside Jayhawker Towers,
where a man told officers that two men robbed him of his money. According to KU
Public Safety's online activity logs, the thieves netted themselves a massive
payday of…$40. Yes, a pair of Andrew Jackson’s was the extent of the haul. Who
were these two amateur thieves roughing up drunk college bros on a weekend
night? They would be KU football players
Eric Deon Rivers and Kendall Nyear Duckworth, who were arrested and booked into
the Douglas County Jail. Head football coach David Beaty announced that Rivers
“has been dismissed from the program for a violation of team rules,” a
violation apparently consisting of not only this (alleged) crime, but also his
being held on suspicion of sexual battery and criminal restraint, stemming from
an alleged incident at Jayhawker Towers on the following day. This moron knew
he’d (allegedly) committed one serious crime, so he (allegedly) decided to
double down and sexually assault someone. Duckworth, accused only of robbery,
has merely been suspended from all team activities. It’s going to be tough for
a team that was outscored 553-183 last season and didn’t win a game to get
worse, but credit to these two fools for doing what they could to make it
happen………
- Of
Estonia, cigarette smugglers, spies and communists. It’s just another day in
Eastern Europe, where a court in Estonia has sentenced three
cigarette smugglers to prison for spying for Russia in a rare low-level
espionage case. The state prosecutor's office announce that the trio of lung
dart smugglers received sentences varying from 2 years to 4 years and 10 months
"for crimes against the Republic of Estonia,” which sounds very vague and
yet important at the same time. Their alleged improprieties included supplying
observations to Russian security services on Estonia's defense forces, border
and security operations, but what do you expect from people who make a living
transporting and selling cancer sticks? As Estonia tells it, the men didn't
have access to state secrets, but were recruited by Russia's domestic security
agency FSB in an apparent deal where Russian officials would turn a blind eye
to the men's criminal activities in exchange for information. Everyone likes to
think of espionage in James Bond terms, with expensive suits, fancy parties and
glamor, but no one ever dreams of trying to gain valuable state secrets about a
rival nation by offering unwritten immunity to a bunch of bottom-rung lung dart
smugglers who don’t even have access to the best information. Due to the nature
of the case and the clandestine approach Estonia seems to take to justice, the
trio’s sentences were delivered in closed-door trials between October last year
and this month. Now that these menaces to state security are behind bars, the
people of Estonia can feel truly safe……….
- Clive
Standen has just inherited a very particular set of skills. He is the new Brian
Mills, a.k.a. the former spy turned badass dad who anchored the “Taken” trilogy
in which members of his family kept getting kidnapped by Albanian gangsters and
he kept kicking ass and taking his loved ones back. The movie portion of the
franchise may be dead, but NBC is giving it new life in the form of a prequel series
explaining how Mills acquired what he described in the first film as, “A very
particular set of skills…skills that make me a nightmare for someone like you.”
Standen will take over the lead role from Neeson for the series, which was ordered by NBC in
September. The series will be helmed by French director Luc Besson, who directed the 2008 kidnap-themed first film and
both sequels. In order to avoid trying to replace Neeson, the network has
decided to go with the prequel premise by following Standen's younger version
of the Bryan Mills character, showing how he learned his set of skills and
became the gravel-voiced, sneaky-tough old dude who goes to Paris and takes
down a human trafficking ring while saving his missing daughter. Standen isn't a
big Hollywood name, but he has appeared in the Starz drama “Camelot” and
feature films such as “Everest” and the forthcoming “Patient Zero.” In the
prequel, he won't be married or have children. Oddly and anachronistically, the
show will be set in the modern day – the same period as the original film
trilogy, not in the past. It makes no sense at all, but then again, very little
in the “Taken” world has ever been logical or made sense, so there isn't any
need to start now……….
- Boy,
you think you know the members of a polygamous cult
and then something like this comes along and you realize you never really knew
them at all. Hearing that several top leaders from Warren Jeffs' polygamous
sect were arrested on federal accusations of food stamp fraud and money
laundering is shocking because if there is one thing these people are good at,
it’s adhering to laws and following rules as set forth by the government.
According to prosecutors, the sect - based on the Utah-Arizona border -
diverted funds from Utah's nutrition assistance program for inappropriate use
by its leaders. Eleven polygamists were charged in the scheme, including Lyle
Jeffs and Seth Jeffs, top-ranking leaders of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus
Christ of Latter Day Saints. This is decidedly bad news for the Jeffs family,
as cult leader and brother of Lyle and Seth, Warren Jeffs, s is serving a life
sentence in Texas for sexually assaulting his 12- and 15-year-old child brides
at a secretive church compound in that state. Lyle Jeffs’ arrest could pose
some problems for the multiple wife-havers in the polygamous community of
Hildale, where he runs the day-to-day operations. His brother Seth leads a
branch of the group in South Dakota, so a whole lot of people in terrible
places to live are mighty upset right now. "This indictment is not about
religion. This indictment is about fraud," U.S. Attorney John Huber said
in a statement. Whatever works, J. Federal,
state and local police served search warrants and made arrests Tuesday in
Hildale, Salt Lake City and Custer County, South Dakota, raiding a dairy store,
produce store and a contractor. Mix in a civil rights trial against the twin
polygamous towns of Hildale and Colorado City, Arizona and it would certainly
appear that these megalomaniacal cult leaders and their sycophantic followers
are on the ropes and taking some serious body blows………
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