- The (___________ fill in your country name here) “Love it
or leave it” mantra is one that diehard patriots around the world embrace
despite its inherent fallacy. American patriotic zealots have used it for years
and they have good company in Zimbabwean despot Bob Mugabe, who is on the war
path against a pastor who organized a nationwide strike against the government,
saying he should move to another country if he's unhappy with conditions at
home. Yes, rather than try to change negative things about the place you live,
you should merely leave and allow it - and the people who still live there - to
exist in what you feel are terrible conditions. President/dictator Robert
Mugabe has mentioned Evan Mawarire publicly by name and rarely is that a
positive thing for anyone living in Zimbabwe. Mawarire was briefly arrested
last week and charged with subverting a constitutionally elected government
before being freed by a court in the capital, Harare, but his fight is clearly
far from over. The contrast of a 92-year-old dictator attacking someone less
than half his age was compounded by the absurdity of the fact that Mugabe was
speaking at the burial of Charles Utete, the former British colony's first
black chief secretary to the Cabinet and president. Way to keep the focus where
it should be on a somber day, Bob. But his paranoia knows know bounds, as
Mugabe has accused Western countries of sponsoring the recent anti-government
protests. He suggested that Mawarire relocate to one of them, rather than
trying to make the government fair and just for the people……..
- This is what you get when you take a classic sports movie
and try to apply it to the real world. The Cleveland Indians thought they would
be so clever and try to help catcher Yan Gomes break out of his season-long
slump at the plate by holding a "sacrificial ceremony" in the
clubhouse before their game against the Twins in Minneapolis, “sacrificing” a
cooked chicken just as the fictional version of the Indians did in the movie
“Major League.” In the short term, a chicken offering to the baseball gods did
a minimal amount of good as Gomes was 1-for-2 Sunday to raise his season
average to .165. In the long term, not so much. Later in that same game, Gomes
suffered what has been diagnosed as an acromioclavicular joint separation of
his right shoulder and will be out approximately six to eight weeks, the team
announced. The team officially placed Gomes on the disabled list Monday but he
will avoid surgery. "I don't know
if we really expected anything," Indians manager Terry Francona said.
"It's an [AC] shoulder separation, probably six to eight weeks. The good
news is it doesn't look like he needs surgery, but it's going to have to heal.”
It’s tough to draw a definitive link between the chicken sacrifice and Gomes
suffering the injury when he fell and landed awkwardly on his shoulder while
running to first base, but not a lot of guys injure their shoulder while merely
running to first. Gomes' right arm was put in a sling and he was carted off the
field and one has to wonder how second baseman Jason Kipnis felt after leading
the chicken sacrifice in an effort to turn Gomes’ year around………
- Because if Jesus had lived in the 21st century, he would
most definitely be packing heat. Family Day Ministries is a Kentucky church
that knows you can't merely arm people with the word of God and expect them to
survive in this crazy world of ours. Pastor Mike Miller is a retired police
officer and the current senior pastor at Family Day Ministries and he plans to
do some well-armed community outreach by hosting a firearms training class to
help citizens protect themselves and learn about their Second Amendment rights.
Inspired by the recent violence against police officers in Dallas and Baton
Rouge and terror attacks across the country and around the world, Miller wants
to take action and rather than seek peace, he’s seeking to send some bullets
flying. “I think that everybody that's a
good law-abiding citizen has the right to protect themselves and their family
and even the church,” Miller said. The church will be hosting a TSG Firearms
Conceal and Carry class and Miller knows that he may take some heat for having
a firearm training class at a place of worship. He doesn’t care. “I want people
to know, as a senior pastor and retired police officer people kill people,”
Miller said. “The Bible talks about this in the book of Genesis, with Cane and
Able, a gun didn't kill people, it was anger. And obviously this is what we’re
seeing in America is people are full of anger and rage and this is why we’re
having the violence that were having. People need to have a heart condition
check.” Aside from that total misappropriation and wrong application of a Bible
verse, the class will take place and for a mere $75, people can come to the
house of God and learn how to properly bust a cap into someone’s ass………
- He’s dead wrong on this one, but Rolling Stones guitarist
Keith Richards has snorted a lot of illegal substances over the years, so it’s
to be expected. Richards, much to the surprise of no one, says his once-great,
now has-been-blues-rockers-turned-sold-out-arena-rock band will continue as an
active band until they die. As Richards sees it, it’s what the best bands do. He’s
wrong, of course; The Beatles were no longer a touring, active and dynamic band
when John Lennon was murdered, the Ramones dissolved before their members began
dying and scores of other great bands have imploded long before their members
began shuffling off this mortal coil. At least the man who once snorted his
deceased father’s ashes is optimistic about it, adding that the band are still
hoping to release their best music 52 years after their self-titled debut album
was released in 1964. “They’re not really bands if they don’t last; they’re
groups,” Richards said of his band’s staying power. “We’re a band and a real
band sticks until it dies. These bands, they become big, but they’re
generational, just for their one decade. They literally go when their
testosterone goes. We work hard and no-one takes it for granted. We’re still
looking to make our best record and put on our best show. The Stones have
managed to be part of life, without becoming passé.” Oh, but you have become passé.
You hit passé when you started abandoning your blues-based sound and chose to
start cranking out arena rock, commercial jingles such as “Start Me Up.” The
fact that later in the same rant, Richard ripped The Beatles, saying “they were
never quite there” as a live band, merely underscores how much this guy misses
the point on a lot of different musical talking points……….
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