- Step
down the persecution complex, Turkey. Your country has an ugly, blood-stained
history and the fact that you’re still overly sensitive about it decades later
isn't an indication that you’re fighting against the villainization of your
past or the twisting of the facts of history….it’s just an ugly reminder of the
power of denial. So why are we here? Because the in-denial doofuses who run
Turkey have decried d plans by Germany's parliament
to recognize the World War I killings of Armenians as genocide. See, virtually
everyone whose nation wasn’t responsible for the killings of 1.5 million
Armenians by Ottoman Turks recognizes this situation as the first genocide of
the 20th century, but Turkey denies that the deaths constituted genocide,
insists that the toll was inflated and says those killed were the victims of
civil war and unrest. That sort of refusal to admit the truth isn't even found
in places that have been the scene of much bigger acts of genocide, so it
really is jaw-dropping how far Turkey has its head in the sand on this one. The
issue sprung back up as Germany's parliament is to hold a vote on a motion
describing the deaths as genocide this week. Turkish Deputy Prime Minister
Numan Kurtulmus tried to puff out his government’s collective chest by warning
that Germany — home to a large Turkish community — should "act with
caution." Kurtulmus tried to spin it as parliaments not deciding on
history and asking all countries to make documents available to historians so
they can shed light on the killings, which is a convenient way of trying to
duck this entire situation once more………
- He’s
in every big movie hitting screens in the next two years - or so it seems - and
thus, it was probably inevitable that Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson would confirm
that he will be playing Clark 'Doc' Savage in an upcoming movie. The movie, for
those who don’t know, is a precursor to much of the superhero culture gripping
Hollywood to this day, as Savage is cited as the inspiration for Superman and
appeared in American pulp magazines
throughout the ’30s and ’40s, where he fought evildoers as a physician,
surgeon, scientist, adventurer, inventor, explorer, researcher and musician. Johnson is the sort of ass-kicker who could
pull off the necessary heroics and has been known to carry a tune from time to
time. Johnson posted an image in Instagram with a caption in which he said he
was "excited to become Doc Savage" because "HE'S A F*CKING
HILARIOUS WEIRDO!" The Savage character was created by Lester Dent, Henry
Ralston and John Nanovic and was also known as the Man of Bronze. The film will
be directed by Shane Black, with Black co-writing the script alongside Anthony
Bagarozzi and Chuck Mondry. Its star, Johnson, is currently appearing in “Central
Intelligence” alongside Kevin Hart and has “Baywatch,” “Fast & Furious 8”
and two “Journey to the Center of the Earth” sequels on the way, plus the movie
“Shazam” for DC Films. Black is set to begin filming “The Predator” in October,
so he’s busy right now too, but having The Rock on board guarantees that this
train is going to keep rolling down the track and probably make a ton of money
in the process……..
- Yard
sales suck. They’re one person selling a chipped monkey lamp and an incomplete
set of Superman-themed dinner plates to another loser and the two of them
haggling over whether that sweet package deal is worth $4.75 or $5.10. That
makes what happened over the holiday along Highway 25 in southeast Missouri an
even bigger nightmare. It was the 31st-annual incarnation of the 100-mile
headache masquerading as a yard sale, where people from around the country
flock and according to the Dexter Chamber of Commerce, its occurrence was
promoted by fliers sent out to people as far away as California. The yard sale
stretches from Jackson, Mo. to Kennett, Mo. along Highway 25 and according to
the chamber, it boosts business for companies all along the sale route as well
as boosting the blood pressure of everyone JUST TRYING TO GET TO THE DAMN
FAMILY BARBECUE SO THEY CAN PUT IN THEIR TIME AND NOT HAVE TO TOLERATE ANY MORE
UNCLE TERRY FOR ANOTHER FEW MONTHS, DAMMIT! In other words, the constant sight
of elderly, thrifty bargain seekers pulled halfway off the road to amble up
someone’s driveway to look at that 500-pound, dented bird bath that they only
want to pay $10 for is at the heart of this mess. “It’s a fun weekend that people look forward
to each year,” said traffic engineer Craig Compas of the Missouri Department of
Transportation, “but we want people to remember that there’s more traffic
and more congestion along Route 25 this weekend.” Say what you really want, C.,
that these yard sale saps are a major nuisance and you wish they’d just go the
hell away………
- Why
apologize for trying to be one of the cool kids, University of Georgia athletic
director Greg McGarity? Just because you and your crew paid three-time Grammy
winner Ludacris $65,000, plus premium liquors and prophylactics to perform at
the school's spring football game for 15 minutes is no reason to apologize to
your school’s athletic association's board of directors. Sure, buying top-end
booze and condoms for a rapper to come in, sex some local ladies and get his
drink on before and after a truncated set before 93,000 fans looks bad, but you
were just trying to put on a show and get people to like you. Yet there was
McGarity, falling on his sword at the board's quarterly meeting. "I do
want to take this opportunity to apologize to our board for mistakes we made
with certain aspects of the details of an entertainment agreement,"
McGarity said. "Few things in my professional life have bothered me more
than this situation. There are no reruns in life so we need to turn the page,
learn from our mistakes and do everything we can to make sure errors of this
nature do not reoccur.” Really, few things? Because if giving $65,000, a few
boxes of rubbers and some Grey Goose to a Grammy-winning rapper is the worst
thing you do, then you clearly need to live more and experience the world. Then
again, McGarity didn’t have much of a choice after University of Georgia
President Jere Morehead ran him under the bus, saying the contract, revealed
through open-records requests, should
have been more closely reviewed and some items should have been removed. Some
of this could be due to the fact that Luda didn’t exactly give the crowd a full
show and when people learned how well he was paid for that mail-in job of a
performance, people were bound to get angry………
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