- Hey
everyone, Frank Stallone is still alive. It may have been in doubt, but the
other Stallone brother let everyone know that he’s still around - albeit with a
loose rein on his tongue and a bit of social media remorse - after talking a
Twitter blowtorch to actor Mark Rylance for having the gall to win the Best Supporting Actor
award over Stallone’s brother Sylvester at Sunday night’s Academy Awards.
Sylvester Stallone was nominated for his role in “Creed,” while Rylance was up
for his turn in the spy thriller “Bridge of Spies.” Many felt Stallone should
have won, but no one seemed angrier about it than his little brother. "The
Academy should be ashamed of themselves. It's as clear as the nose on your face
that Sly won. Mark who? It's total Hollywood bullsh*t,” Frank Stallone tweeted.
“First of all my brother has created 2 American icons 40 yrs worth and he did a
historic job. If I was Mark? I would have been embarrassed." There was
nothing too incendiary there and it could have been passed off as typical
family overprotectiveness, but then ol’ Frankie had to go and make it personal
by attacking Rylance’s appearance. "Mark Rylance couldn't even comb his
hair for Christ sake this is the 3rd time Sly's gotten ripped off Rocky,
Copland and Creed. New Voters,” Frank Stallone added. Rylance has elected to
take the high road and not engage in a war of words, but Frank Stallone - and
hopefully not his agent or spokesperson because Lord knows he’s not famous
enough to need either - apologized and said he got caught up in the emotion of
the night. No need to apologize, bro, because we’re all glad to know that you’re
still above ground and breathing……….
- So,
about those allegations that Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak is lining his
pockets with $1 billion from a state investment fund….let’s not get into that
just yet. The prime minister, after all, has rejected a new report that the
fund has funneled close to a billion dollars into his personal bank accounts. Don’t
dwell on the fact that Razak has been battling allegations of corruption and
mismanagement for months because he claims it’s all bogus and politicians never
lie about money and corruption. The allegations that hundreds of millions of
dollars were magically channeled into his accounts from indebted investment
fund 1MDB have Razak under a spotlight and since he formed the fund back in
2009, it’s hard to deny that a link exists. In a suspiciously weak move,
Malaysia's attorney general cleared Najib of wrongdoing in January, ruling that
$681 million deposited in the prime minister's accounts was simply a benevolent
donation from Saudi Arabia's royal family. Not only that, the attorney general
claimed most of the money had been returned. It was a fiscal miracle, but now
that reports have surfaced that a total of more than $1 billion was deposited
in Najib's bank accounts -- several hundred million dollars more than had been
reported before -- there are new questions to answer. Investigations from
outside parties have revealed that the money likely came from 1MDB through a
complex web of transactions in several countries and that sort of accounting always
raise suspicions. In response, Razak’s office released a statement claiming
once more that "the funds received were a donation from Saudi
Arabia." Oh, and it also accused those accusing the prime minister of
fabricating evidence, another surefire sign of a cover-up………
- Major
League Baseball players live a life of relative luxury during the season, from
chartered planes to elite hotels and massive per diem allotments for their
meals. Yes, they travel a lot and don’t see their families as much as they
might like, but when you’re making six or seven figures to play a game for a
living, you can put up with a certain amount of, um, discomfort. Still, it’s
rare to hear a major leaguer lay out his former team for having a “country
club” atmosphere and suggesting that its posh new spring training digs have led
to said team being soft. Welcome to the war of words between former Colorado
Rockies shortstop Troy Tulowitzki - now a member of the Toronto Blue Jays - and
the team that used to pay him millions of dolars. Tulowitzki said the Rockies
have grown comfortable playing in a state-of-the-art spring training facility
that's the equivalent of a "country club” and claimed that he prefers his
new spring training home with the Toronto Blue Jays in Dunedin, Florida. "That
place was like a country club. Guys got comfortable because it was so nice,”
Tulowitzki said. Those words quickly made their way back to Rockies manager
Walt Weiss, who fired back in defense of his team and the 140-acre complex that
Colorado and the Arizona Diamondbacks share at Salt River Fields at Talking
Stick. "I think that's the furthest thing from the truth," Weiss
said. “We have a nice place here and we're proud of it, but our guys are
mentally tough and they compete. I have no issue with our guys being soft or
country-clubbish. Our guys are the opposite of that.” In fact, Weiss believes
the facility gives his team a competitive edge with its six practice fields,
modern training and video rooms, a 108-seat theater and 11,000-square-foot
weight room. Sounds like a pretty posh country club, eh skipper……….
- Don’t
you just hate it when your pesky homeowners’ association tries to ruin all the
fun you and the freaky, deviant members of your swingers club are having? Parker
County (Tex.) resident Randy Carter knows the pain that can bring and it’s
becoming clearer by the day as he is being sued by his HOA for throwing massive,
late-night freakery shows with his “Naughty Neighbors” swingers club. This
isn't some secret gathering, either; online, Carter’s home is listed on
websites for the swingers’ community, with set hours and entry fees. Aside from
the obvious - and presumably legal - weirdness going on inside the home, the
neighbors are objecting to the high volume of people cycling through their
neighborhood at late hours, creating all sorts of noise and nuisance. Some
claim the disruptions happen almost nightly and it wasn’t until the HOA lawsuit
that neighbors say that the madness started to slow down. That might be enough
for some people who simply want peace and quiet, but a few members of the
community are pressing on. They want to know who is on the club’s guest list
and was responsible for them having so many loud nights. Carter’s attorneys
believe the guest list isn’t relevant to the case, but the HOA’s attorney
contends that he needs to speak to partygoers because they are witnesses to
what went on. “They can tell us about the loud music, about the lights, about
the traffic. And we want to speak to them,” attorney Luke Beshara said. It
sounds like a shameless attempt to publicly expose the judges, attorneys and
other prominent community members the HOA suspects of being involved. As for
Carter, he threatened to get his gun and come after a local TV news crew
covering the story, then attacked a cameraman and then flung himself to the
ground, faking an injury in an effort to, um, do something……..
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