- Oh
good, another opportunity for Jimmy Cameron to waste four-plus hours of the
movie-watching public’s lives. The oft-reclusive director of the four-hour
behemoth that is “Titanic” has directed just one film since that Leonardo
DiCaprio-led 1997 release - 2009’s critical and commercial smash success
“Avatar” - but he’s making a comeback of sorts by producing a documentary about
the mythical lost city of Atlantis. Cameron is executive producer of what is
allegedly a two-hour documentary called “Search For Atlantis,” but nothing
Cameron has ever done has lasted less than three hours. Besides, this project
will be shown on National Geographic and honestly, does that network even have
any other programming or does it just air “Planet Earth” reruns on an endless
loop? Cameron could make a 10-hour documentary and there would still be plenty
of time for it. “Search For Atlantis” is the second documentary made by
National Geographic about the mythical city, so clearly someone at the network
is really eager to figure out where the hell Atlantis went. Back in 2011, the
show “Finding Atlantis” claimed to have located Atlantis off the coast of
southern Spain. Cameron claims to have refuted that with fresh intelligence. “Finding
the historical and archaeological truth behind the Atlantis myth has always
been a fascination of mine,” Cameron said. “Our exploration team will
investigate several new theories about where the real Atlantis was, who these
mysterious people were, and what disaster wiped them from the Earth over three
millennia ago.” Filming for his project has begun in Sicily, Malta, Crete and
Sardinia as well as the original documentary’s location in Spain, setting up
future chapters, “Atlantis: Where the hell is it?” and “Desperately Seeking Atlantis.”
Stay tuned for that barrel of fun………..
- Every
government employee’s dream work scenario is no more in Venezuela. The South
American nation’s two-day workweek is no more, as public workers
have been ordered to return to working five days a week because officials say a
severe energy crisis has eased. This curious policy decision came in April,
when the national government decreed that public employees would work just
Monday and Tuesday in a bid to save energy. As it turned out, the only energy
they were really saving was the sort required to show up at work Wednesday,
Thursday and Friday because in a shocking twist, it seems that many of these
workers didn’t just sit home and read books while lighting their houses with
candles. No, they were likely using up lots of power running their own computers
and other miscellaneous electronic devices, so no real power savings were
achieved. The return to the five-day work week came because the country’s energy
minister said water levels at the dam that supplies most of the country's
electricity had been somewhat restored. Those who worry that the system shock
employees might have by being asked to work all five days during the week can
rest easy because while these slackers will be in the office Monday through
Friday, they will only be in that office on Wednesdays, Thursday and Fridays
until 1 p.m. It’s quite a grind, but hopefully these working class heroes can
find a way to endure it…….
- Someone
got to their 21st birthday a little early, eh Kentucky senior forward Derek
Willis? Willis, who should probably know by virtue of being around for a fourth
year under John Calipari - i.e. the maestro of the one-and-done college
basketball prospect - that he’s not really destined for great things on the
hardwood, now finds himself staring down charges of public alcohol intoxication
after he was found lying in the street late at night by Boone County Sheriff's
Department deputies. According to a police citation, a observed Willis lying
outside the open driver's side door of a car and had to awaken him Saturday
morning in Union, Kentucky. The deputy noticed a "strong odor" of
alcohol coming from Willis and the car and said he had extremely slurred speech
and along with being virtually comatose in the street, that’s a strong
indicator that a person has definitely had "a lot" to drink. Willis
was arrested and later released after posting $50 bond, while a UK spokesperson
said the school is aware of the situation and gathering information. Oh, and
the timing of this is a bit gnarly because the 6-foot-9 Willis doesn’t turn 21 until
next week, so there’s that too. The irony is that this is a guy who became a
bigger part of Kentucky's rotation last season and finished with per-game
averages of 7.7 points and 4.0 rebounds. He’s also the second-leading scorer
returning to a Wildcats squad that lost three players to the NBA draft, but
knowing Calipari’s typical disciplinary approach, he’ll have to sit out a meaningless
non-league game or two against a Division II opponent as penance for his
crimes…….
- It’s
one of the worst clichés imaginable when it comes to companies and undocumented
immigrants working for those companies. A shady employer hires a bunch of
border crashers who don’t have green cards, work visas or anything allowing
them to legally enter and be employed in the United States, then turns around
and uses their undocumented status to extort and blackmail them. This time, its
Century Roofing owners Tommy Frank Keaton and Graziano Cornolo, whose
Kansas-based roofing company is accused of forcing workers who are in the U.S.
illegally to pay kickbacks by threatening to turn them into immigration agents
if they didn't. According to a 17-count federal indictment unsealed this week in
Kansas City, Kansas, these two lotharios profited from kickbacks since at least
2009, paying workers who were in the country illegally in cash to complete
roofing projects in the Kansas City area in Kansas and Missouri, then forcing
the workers to give some of the money back. Ah, make it look like you’re paying
them fair and legal wages, but put that cash in one hand and take it right back
out before they can stash it in their pockets for the same reason that anyone
does anything, because they can. According to a spokesman for Acting U.S.
Attorney Tom Beall, no attorneys had entered an appearance for either defendant,
but given that they a) are scumbags and b) have a lot of money, rest assured
that someone will represent them and try to explain why it’s OK for a business
owner to exploit people who yes, are breaking the law, but still don’t need to
be treated like subhuman beings in order to line the pockets of wealthy
Americans who appear to have neither morals nor scruples. Even if Keaton and
Cornolo are somehow acquitted of these charges because
#americanjusticeisbroken, they should still be convicted of being lame, lazy
and unimaginative when it comes to the crimes they (allegedly) chose to
perpetrate upon illegals…….
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