- Been
looking for that special getaway tinged with history, steeped in stories and
with direct ties to one of the most evil regimes ever to rule a country
anywhere in the world? Boy, does the local government of Berlin have a deal for
you. The local government has been trying to unload a certain property with a crumbling
façade, failing roof and seen-better-decades interior…and those are its strong
points. For more than 20 years, the government has been unable to find a buyer
for the Haus am Bogensee, a 70-room lakeside villa that once served as a
"love nest" for Adolf Hitler's propagandist, Joseph Goebbels. It was
Goebbels who tried to spin Hitler’s genocidal, hatemongering philosophies into legitimate
policies and living in a place where he once hit it with Nazi skanks isn't
appealing to many. There’s also a concern on the part of the government that
the house "could become a shrine for Nazis," should it fall into the
"wrong hands." After years of trying to sell it, the plan has shifted
to lease the property located 25 miles north of Berlin. The city's real estate
agency, BIM, got some free publicity for the property when it was featured as a
movie set in the upcoming "Alone in Berlin" with Emma Thompson. The
land was purchased for Goebbels in 1936 to mark his birthday and construction
of Haus am Bogensee was completed in 1939. The scumbag spin doctor described
the area as a "place of idyllic solitude," which apparently
translates in English to “place to cheat on my wife with skank actresses from
the movie studio you control.” Yet it wasn’t any of those side pieces with whom
Goebbels ultimately killed himself in Hitler's bunker, but rather his wife Magda………..
- Timbaland
has churned out all manner of crappy pop music for both himself and the litany
of artists he has produced in recent years, but none of that makes him look as
bad as the story involving his alleged bailout on a charity concert to raise
money to provide clean drinking water to the people of Flint, Michigan. He’s worked with everyone from Jay Z to Justin Timberlake, but
the current word on the street is that he wouldn’t do any work at a charity gig
last week because the venue failed to provide free bottles of premium
champagne. What is known is that Timbaland was booked for a benefit concert held
in Detroit in aid of residents of nearby Flint, whose water supply has been
infected with lead for months. On one side of this battle is promoter Mitchell
Jaworski, who claims that the producer refused to perform a DJ set because
there were no bottles of Ace Of Spades, the $300-a-bottle champagne produced by
Jay Z. The promoter said a different brand of champagne and other drinks
were provided, but Timbaland refused to take to the
stage until 1 a.m. and even then he
"just stood there" while another DJ played music. "They had about 15 bottles of liquor and champagne,
which is extremely excessive especially for a charity event," Jaworski said.
"They seemed more concerned about getting every drop of liquor." In response,
Timbaland's representatives denounced the claims as “simply not true” and
painted their client as "extremely generous person who agreed to a much
lower fee for this event to raise money for the Flint, Michigan's water crisis.”
A much lower fee? How about performing for free so that as much money as
possible can go to helping a very poor city of people who have spent months
drinking toxic water? Yes, the benefit show reportedly raised over $3,000 to buy
bottles of water and water filters for Flint residents, but it still
left a sour aftertaste thanks to its promoter and star……….
- Ah,
the faces of meth. The theatrics, hijinks, antics and insanity of the
toothless, mentally unstable addicts of the official white trash drug of choice
never cease to horrify/amaze and that was on full display over the weekend in
Portland, Oregon, where a wanted man already peaking on meth injected himself
with more of the drug during a standoff in a rail car that lasted four hours in
northwest Portland. According to police, the situation kicked off at 1:09 p.m.
when they responded to a report of a man climbing on trains in the rail yard at
3930 N.W. Yeon St. They identified the suspect as Matthew Joseph Medlin, a man
who just two years ago escaped from the Columbia River Correctional Institute
just days before he was scheduled to be released and was caught nine hours
later at a Jack in the Box restaurant in north Portland. With an extensive
criminal history and as a convicted sex offender, being a meth head may
actually be the least of this loose cannon’s problems. He certainly added to
those problems when police arrived at the rail yard and he jumped from the top
of one rail car to the open bed of a dumpster-style rail car and refused to
come out. From there, Medlin kicked things up a notch by repeatedly picking up
pieces of metal and rocks and wielding them as weapons. It didn’t take long for
officers interacting with Medlin to realize he was under the influence of meth
and had been awake for 26 hours before he went to the rail yard. He also had a
felony warrant for his arrest on a parole violation, so with all of that
bearing down on him, he elected to jam some more meth into his system. To cap
off a truly theatrical day, the standoff went on four hours and lasted through
a thunderstorm and hailstorm. Mix in the Portland Police Bureau's Crisis
Negotiation Team and Special Emergency Reaction Team and representatives from Project
Respond and the Multnomah County Crisis Line and you end up with a scenario in
which a meth head is arrested holding crude weapons and after being shot with
non-lethal ammunition and a Taser blast………..
- Does
this story sound familiar? Troubled, talented Cleveland Browns star who hasn’t
contributed nearly as much production as he has pain to the franchise is
looking for his umpteenth chance and promises that this time, it will be
different. Except this time, it’s not overhyped, overrated and clueless Johnny
Manziel who’s trying to fight his way back onto the field. No, Johnny Football
is spending his offseason flushing away what remains of his career via run-ins
with the law and more bar hopping, but a player who has actually helped the
Browns win a game or two at one point is trying to walk the comeback trial.
That would be suspended Browns receiver Josh Gordon, who posted a message on
his Instagram account vowing to rid his life of anyone who hinders him in
trying to get back on track in life and in football. Gordon, who was suspended
for multiple violations of the league's substance abuse policy, earned a
one-year ban last year for failing an alcohol test. He sat out the 2015 season
and recently applied to the league for reinstatement, formally asking
commissioner Roger Goodell to allow him back. No decision has been announced on
the appeal, but Gordon is trying to position himself as a changed man. “Priority
#1 Get back in.. Priority #2 Stay in.. If you're not contributing to that, I
gotta disassociate I'm sorry..
#mouthstofeed,” he wrote in an emoji-heavy post on his Instagram
account. A decision on reinstatement will
take up to 60 days but should Gordon be allowed to return, he’s under contract
for 2016 for nearly $1.1 million and can become a restricted free agent
following the season. That Pro Bowl season with a league-leading 1,646
receiving yards in 2013 seems like forever ago, obscured by a DWI arrest in
North Carolina, a failed alcohol test after the 2014 season and a positive
test/10-game suspension at the beginning of the 2014 season for a failed
marijuana test………..
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