- It’s
not just professional athletes and Hollywood celebrities who aren’t smart
enough to treat Twitter - and all social media outlets - like the loaded gun
they truly are. Even political officials put in positions of power by those
entrusted to run entire nations have proven that they don’t really understand
just how much damage they can do in 140 characters or less. Irem Aktas, a Turkish
official linked to the party founded by President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, has
stepped in it by posting on Twitter that she wished for the death of more
Israelis caught up in Saturday's suicide bombing on Istanbul's main pedestrian
shopping street that killed five people, including two people with dual
Israeli-U.S. citizenship. "I wish the Israeli citizens were not wounded
but had all die," Aktas wrote. Granted, this ass hat is only an official
at a local office of the Justice Development Party (AKP), but those ill-advised
words still reached Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who gave the
news that two Israelis had been killed and that there might be a third fatality.
Netanyahu said his government had contacted the Turkish government, which gave
assurances that action would be taken against the official. "I demanded it
be removed and that steps be taken against the woman who published it. The
tweet was removed,” the prime minister said. According to Turkish officials, at
least six Israelis were wounded in the attack and Hatice Yucel, the chairman of
the AKP women's branch in Istanbul's Eyup district, tried to put out the social
media fire by quickly insisting that the opinion shared on social media
certainly does not reflect the party's views……….
- What’s
worse than being an underachieving NBA team fronted by a pair of
underachieving, widely disliked star players? How about having one of those
players caught blatantly cheating during a game you lost by 12 points and
upping his hateability factor tenfold. Step right up, multi-time NBA All-Star
Dwight Howard the goofy, inherently dislikable Houston Rockets center who does
asinine sh*t like insist he’s a champion no matter what anyone says and
regardless of the fact that he declared himself a champion after being
eliminated from the second round of the playoffs. But ol’ Dwight took his
penchant for making people hate him to new levels this weekend when he tried to
Stickum up the basketball during a game against the Atlanta Hawks. The
officials removed the affected game ball because of a sticky substance that Howard
applied, spraying on his hands from a can covered in white tape while waiting
to re-enter the game late in the first quarter. Yes, covering that can in tape
to conceal what it is always works. Atlanta forward Paul Millsap made the first
of two free throws and then Howard checked back in, curiously grabbing the ball
from the official. When Millsap got the ball back, he wondered why it felt a
bit tacky. "I've never felt the ball like that, ever," Millsap said.
"It was sticky. It was like super glue or something was on there. I
couldn't get it off my hands. It was the weirdest thing ever." Official
Monty McCutchen did some detective work, issued a warning to both benches and
reminded each team that stickum is illegal in the NBA, all while Rockets coach
J.B. Bickerstaff slid in front of the can, which was still at the scorer's
table, in an attempt to conceal it. Afterward, Howard claimed he’s used stickum
for years and, I don't know why people are making a big deal out of it, I do it
every game. It's not a big deal. I ain't tripping." Yes, but you’re going
to be sitting, as in serving a suspension once the league metes out justice
here……..
- Who
says there’s no decency among car thieves? The lowlife who thieved a 2013 Chevy pickup near Emporia, Kansas and with it a Weimaraner
named Gunner could have kept on motoring until his inevitable arrest without
regard for the dog that can't bark riding shotgun, but this grand auto thief
was kind enough to let Gunner go, lest the pooch get caught up in whatever
shenanigans might befall him on his adventurous run from the law. The thief,
who was eventually arrested after an 81-mile trek that ended with him leaving
both the truck and dog behind, took the truck when Gunner’s owner went inside a
courthouse to renew his vehicle’s registration. When the owner, whom police
declined to identify, came back outside, both the truck and dog were gone.
Wichita police were notified of the theft and began searching for the vehicle, eventually
tracking both truck and canine down in a rural location after the suspect left
them behind. So far, the exact motives behind this odd crime haven’t been
revealed, but anyone who would steal an old truck from outside a courthouse
without bothering to see if it had a dog inside that might literally come back
to bit him on the ass is probably some combination of stupid, high, drunk and
in need of a thievery for idiots class. The good news is that no animals or
vehciles were harmed in the making of this crazy tale and at the end of the day,
everyone and everything is back where they belong - parked in the garage, chasing
their tail in the back yard or in jail, awaiting trial in a case that shouldn’t
be all that difficult for prosecutors to win………
- It’s
out-of-touch, sellout rocker vs. lyrically sound, much more current rapper and
unfortunately for the KISS Army, rocker Gene Simmons comes out of this one looking bad. The bassist recently made
the moronic statement that he is
"looking forward to the death of rap," doing all but mocking those
damn kids with their backwards baseball hats, saggy pants and “gangster rap” lyrics.
Simmons denounced rap as “just talking,” which is a bit like calling KISS just
a bunch of dudes with an affinity for makeup and leather. His words reached
rapper Talib Kweli, who responded by
tweeting, "Would it be unfair of me to say I'm looking forward to the
death [of Gene Simmons] or nah?" Simmons tried to spin out of it by
explaining that he was merely observing that "everything is cyclical, even
music," Kweli was having none of that deke job. "Pointing out
everything is ‘cyclical’ is different than ‘looking forward’ to things dying.
Do better Gene,” the rapper replied. Simmons, showing that he loves attention
and anything that will keep him in the spotlight despite the fact that his band
hasn’t really been relevant in years, clearly had to respond and respond he
did. "I'm all for anybody talking," he added. "'Wild Thing' was
talking: 'Wild thing, she makes my heart sing/ she makes everything … .'
There's no melody there. That's cool. Napoleon XIV, 'They're Coming to Take Me
Away, Ha-Haaa!' That's a funny song, but those are novelty records. So was
Dickie Goodman and 'Mr. Jaws.' These were all hits, by the way. But predominantly,
music is about melody and lyric, whether it's rap or doo-wop, or yeah, even
rock." A very narrow definition of music and clearly exposing you for the industry
dinosaur you are, G………
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