- So….maybe
there are certain ways in which famous people are not like the rest of us. For
most people, the end of a marriage is a time to reflect, possibly mourn, be
angry and even throw a few angry accusations at the other party in the
termination of a union. Even if the split is amicable, the two sides typically
just want to go their own ways and try to begin the process of moving on in
life. That’s not really the approach taken by celebrity couple Wiz Khalifa and
Amber Rose, who finalized their divorce settlement earlier this week during
business hours and then celebrated their disunion together that night at the
Ace of Spades strip club in Los Angeles. Rather than go their own respective
ways, they decided to mark the end of their marriage by showering cash on
pole-dancing skanks and then counting dollar bills and throwing them into the
crowd at the venue. Rose said prior to the divorce that the pair are working on remaining friends for the sake
of their 3-year-old son, Sebastian, and nothing says uniting around your child
quite like throwing dolla, dolla bills are women writhing around on stage in
G-strings and pasties. But what’s not to like when one of you, Khalifa in this
case, will keep the couple’s Pennsylvania home and 10 cars, while Rose will reportedly
receive $1 million as well as $14,800 a month in child support for their son,
who the pair will share physical and legal custody of. It’s a more civil
parting than the one between Rose and camera whore Kanye West, who said he
needed “30 showers” to cleanse himself after breaking up with Rose. Now pass
the Cristal and light an expensive cigar in the VIP lounge because it’s time to
celebrate……..
- Maybe
it’s time to tap the inheritance of that one Nigerian prince who keeps hitting
up people around the world with emails asking for $5,000 in quick cash to
access his fortune, because the African nation is in need of an immediate
infusion of cash. The need arose after a West African court ordered Nigeria to
pay $3.25 million in compensation for the extrajudicial killings of eight
civilians and the wounding of 11 others shot by soldiers and secret service
agents in the capital, Abuja. Yes, $3.25 million is an awfully low price to pay
for 11 lives, especially after the court of the Economic Community of West
African States ruled there is no evidence to back claims by the Nigerian army
and Department of Security Services that troops fired in self-defense on a
group of Boko Haram extremists the night of Sept. 20, 2013. If you want to know
the cost per life for victims who were squatting in an unfinished building that
was raided, that averages out to $200,000 for each death and $150,000 to each
of the wounded. Again, it’s a low price when being found liable for the
"barbaric, illegal and unconstitutional" deaths and injuries of
people, even if those people are extremists who have caused a lot of death and
carnage and may deserve some sort of swift and severe justice. A three-judge
panel issued the ruling against the Nigerian state and while it’s hard to
imagine Nigeria moving swiftly to pay up, that email scamming prince probably
has the spare change to wipe out that debt……..
- Ah,
the wild, wacky period between the end of one college football season and the
start of another. It’s a time of increased free time for players and therefore,
a time they appear on the police blotter and court dockets at a breakneck pace.
The latest instance of this incredibly reliable phenomenon comes from Texas,
where a West Texas grand jury indicted three former Texas Tech football players
on charges that accuse them of stealing seven guns worth more than $14,000 from
a Lubbock home. The trio of Robert James Castaneda, Dakota Devon Allen and
Trace Keaton Ellison are accused of breaking into the home between Dec. 20 and
Jan. 9 and stealing a gun safe containing seven handguns and rifles, two
digital cameras and a TV. The trio was kicked off
the team May 5 for "failure to uphold student-athlete expectations, which
is a really nice way to describe a charge of burglary of a habitation, a
second-degree felony punishable by up to 20 years in prison. Allen's attorney, Guy Womack, tried to earn his fat
hourly fee by claiming he can't imagine a less likely person to be accused than
Allen, who earned Big 12 academic honors in 2015. "This is a terrible circumstance but we'll look at
the evidence and see what we can do with this case," Womack said. Give
these three alleged felons credit because they picked a solid time to allegedly
commit this crime. Residents of the home didn’t report the burglary until Jan.
9, when they returned to the city after the semester break. Unfortunately,
Allen’s skills as the team’s top returning tackler didn’t help him elude
justice and along with Castaneda, who would have been a sophomore offensive
lineman, and Ellison, a redshirt freshman on the offensive line, he did himself
in when the stolen gun’s owner went to a
pawnshop in March looking for a new gun and found one of the stolen guns there.
From there, it was only a matter of time before the whole scheme unraveled……..
- America,
you’re still fat. Specifically, American ladies aren’t pulling their weight
specifically by pulling around far too much weight on a daily basis. The fight
against obesity is a losing one, according to a pair of studies released this
week which show that 35 percent of men, 40 percent of women and 17 percent of
children and adolescents are obese. The studies, published in the Journal of
the American Medical Association, report that in spite of the "hundreds of
millions of dollars" that have been pumped into research, trials,
observational studies, community and hospital programs, and the development of
devices and drugs, there doesn't appear to be much headway being made in the
battle to curb obesity in the United States, obesity - like Hulk-a-Mania - is
still running wild. Despite attempts by schools, communities, companies and
places of worship to control weight gain, America’s waistline is still
expanding. "Although it is impossible to know what the extent of the
obesity epidemic would have been without these efforts, the data reported ...
certainly do not suggest much success," wrote Dr. Jody Zylke and Dr.
Howard Bauchner, the deputy editor and editor in chief, respectively, of JAMA. The
study used data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey in
which scientists monitored obesity trends because of the real health
consequences associated with obesity. Ladies fared particularly poorly in the
studies, as obesity increased by 5 percent over a decade. A body mass index of
30 or more qualified as obese, and a body mass index of 40 or more qualified as
class 3 obesity. A disheartening 10 percent of women and 5.5 percent of men fit
into the class-3 obesity category, proving that the gravitational pull of the
all-you-can-eat buffet remains stronger than the will to get fit……….
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