- It’s
either the first big publicity stunt for a new reality series about women’s
prison fight clubs or a horrible mistake by everyone involved, but there’s no
question that what went down at the Kailua Women’s Community Corrections Center
was interesting. The powers that be are looking for answers after a visitor was
able to walk into an unsecured module at the prison and kick the asses of not
one, but two inmates. This particular facility has had a plethora of problems
lately, including having four guards under investigation for allegedly having
sex with four inmates. According to employees, the warden is under pressure
to run weekend visitations despite inadequate staffing and running things that
way is endangering the safety and inmates and employees. Prison officials
insist that isn't the case, but even they can't deny that over the weekend, a former
inmate who got out last September came to visit a current inmate and when a
guard went out for a smoke break - damn you, lung darts! - it left two dorms in
the Kaala unit unsupervised with their doors stuck open. The visiting former
inmate seized on the opening by going into a dorm and opening up a can of
whoop-ass of one inmate before other inmates stepped in, prompting this
troublemaker to fight a second inmate right in from of families with children
who were a) trying to visit with their loved ones and b) not get shanked in a
prison fight in the process. Before all of this madness, the same unit at the
prison was supervised by a sergeant who'd been transferred to the women's
prison from Oahu Community Correctional Center after he was accused of
smuggling drugs and other contraband to male inmates there. It seems all is not
well on cell block D in paradise………
- Nice
to see you coming around on this topic, Kiefer Sutherland. The man known almost
entirely for playing rogue, badass secret agent Jack Bauer through eight
seasons and one 12-episode special event run for Fox has expressed a desire in
recent months to be done with the only role for which anyone really cares about
his career. He won't appear in the upcoming spinoff
of the series, titled “24: Legacy,”
and hasn’t wavered from his stance that he’s done as a part of the
counter-terrorism unit-based show in which each season was 24 episodes
consisting of each hour of the day of a major terrorist plot to destroy the
world. He will serve as an executive producer on “Legacy,” but recently showed
cracks in the foundation of his resistance to stepping into Bauer’s shoes once
more. “I've said that twice and have been wrong, so I won't say that again,”
Sutherland said. So you’re saying there’s a chance you’ll take on a malicious
foreign government, a plot to create and detonate a nuclear bomb and being sold
out by your own government, all of which you’ll resolve in a mere 24 hours and
in your favor, once again? Maybe Sutherland said that simply with the hope that
he won't keep getting questions about the idea, but it’s still nice to see a
glimmer of hope here. As for “Legacy,” he seems excited about this concept as
well. "It's
a phenomenal script," Sutherland said of the new series. "I think
it's going to be incredibly liberating for the writers to not have to figure
out one more bad day for Jack Bauer. They get to write for new characters. And
Bauer's still out there, so you never know what's going to happen."
Stop teasing us, DAMMIT, WE’RE RUNNING OUT OF TIME………..
- The
real shocker here isn't that Russian despot Vladimir Putin has ordered the
creation of a National Guard to fight terrorism and organized crime in the
country… it’s that Putin is pretending such forces don’t already exist. The
Russian dictator announced the new force, which would be formed out of existing
Interior Ministry troops and created under the Ministry of Internal Affairs, acting
as if his goons, henchmen and various military and paramilitary outfits don’t already
knock skulls and menace anyone who dares to run afoul of Vlad. To his limited
credit, Putin did concede that the new group will “perform the functions which
are currently carried out by riot police units, SWAT, etc.,” with the decision
stemming from discussions about “how to improve [law enforcement] in all areas,
including those related to fighting terrorism, to organized crime and illicit
drug trafficking.” This idea has been
kicked around since 2012, but at that time, the Russian government denied the
claims that it was planning to form a National Guard. Now, with Putin meeting with
various Russian officials, including the Interior Minister, the head of the
Federal Drug Control Service and the commander of the interior troops of the
Ministry of Internal Affairs, the time is apparently right for another authoritarian
outfit to run roughshod over Russia and terrorize anyone and every the Kremlin
deems a problem, albeit under the auspices of combating legitimately bad aspects
of society, including the Russian mafia and drug traffickers. Somehow, these
plans never quite stick to legitimate paths in Russia and it’s difficult to
imagine this new National Guard being any different given who is ultimately in
charge of it……..
- At
heart, many professional baseball players are still 5-year-old goofballs who
think that immature pranks we all grew out of in elementary school are still hilarious.
Lighting another dude’s shoe on fire, sticking a bubble gum bubble on top of
his hat or sticking Icy Hot inside his pants are all these dudes’ ideas of high
comedy and in proving that you cannot kill the immaturity in their souls, look
no further than opening day for the Baltimore Orioles. The Orioles scored a
thrilling, walk-off win and while it was good to start the season off with a
victory, the nature of the win shone a spotlight on the team’s ban of Adam
Jones' ritual of smashing pies in teammates' faces to celebrate victories.
Players have actually been hurt delivering or receiving pies to the face in
recent years, so when the team cited safety concerns as the reason for the ban,
it wasn’t out of line. Yet after Matt Wieters delivered a walk-off Opening Day
win with a single and the veteran catcher was being interviewed on the field,
there was Jones to crush him in the face with a pie of undetermined flavor. The
pie appeared to have some sort of orange in its composition, but didn’t look to
be a pumpkin pie. "You want to talk about the game or pies?" Jones
replied when asked about it after the game. "I plead the Fifth. That's a valid
answer." Manager Buck Showalter wasn’t exactly irate over the pie-ing, jokingly
suggesting he had “control of the team again” and intimating that it may not
have been a pie at all because it “ looked very cakey to me." Good to know
some things don’t change……..
No comments:
Post a Comment