Saturday, October 29, 2016

Drake's low blow on Cudi, Riot Watch! South Korea and MMA arson antics


- Because #college. A 19-year-old Texas A&M University student didn’t really tread any new ground or reflect too well on herself, but she definitely had a true live-and-learn college moment this week when she decided to mix underage drinking, reckless driving, social media and outright stupidity. It all began for Miranda Rader when she got into her car with an open bottle of wine in a cup holder next to her and based on her actions, she probably consumed some of that wine before what came next. While driving in Bryan, Texas, near the A&M campus about 100 miles northwest of Houston, a possibly intoxicated Rader busted out her phone and decided that driving while (probably) impaired was a perfect time to take a selfie. But not just any selfie - a topless one. Of course. If you’re going to get liquored up, risk your life and the lives of others and do it in the name of social media glory, you need to show some skin. Unfortunatley for Rader, being (allegedly) under the influence of alcohol, trying to take a topless photo and driving is a tough threesome to manage and thus, she slammed into the rear of a stopped police car and was arrested. It was a very literal crash and burn that made the job easy for the Bryan Police Department. The officer who approached Rader’s car got a nice view as when he approached her vehicle, she was trying to put on her blouse. Oh, the fun that must have ensued when Rader called home to explain all of this to her proud parents………


- Sometimes, the rage of MMA cannot be contained inside the cage. Whether what went down this week in the Milwaukee driveway of mixed martial arts fighters Anthony and Sergio Pettis is tied to their UFC careers is unclear, but what police do know is that three vehicles were burned in that driveway and Authorities are investigating after . The fires happened early Thursday morning. Milwaukee police say it appears accelerant was used to set two vehicles on fire, and the fire spread to a third vehicle in the driveway. In the aftermath of the vehicular arson, Anthony Pettis said he was glad no one was hurt and promised he would do everything he could to find out who is responsible and have them prosecuted. "I am a fighter. I won't be defeated by this," he said. His brother Sergio asked the Milwaukee community to come together and stop the violence and in the midst of all of this chaos, Anthony Pettis is scheduled to face Max Holloway in UFC 206 in Toronto in December. UFC is about as violent a sport as there is and Milwaukee isn't typically known as one of America’s more violent cities, but this is a rare exception to that rule. At least this time the carnage was limited to three cars and no lives were lost or irrevocably harmed, but the brothers Pettis seem to be taking this as a call to make a positive impact in their community………


- Riot Watch! Riot Watch! The other Korea, the one not ruled by a megalomaniacal, diminutive despot who stifles the opposition and refuses to allow his people to know what’s actually going on in the world outside their borders, but the democratic one - South Korea. That’s where thousands of citizens took to the streets of the capital, Seoul, calling for increasingly unpopular President Park Geun-hye to step down over allegations that she let an old friend, the daughter of a religious cult leader, interfere in important state affairs. Involving cult leaders in government matters isn't typically a good idea and Park ordered 10 of her senior secretaries to resign over the scandal, but can’t seem to evade her rising lame duck status ahead of next year's election. South Korea isn’t a violent, riotous type of society, so the protest was largely tame, with demonstrators holding candles and signs reading "Who's the real president?" and "Park Geun-hye step down," all while marching through downtown Seoul after holding a candlelight vigil near City Hall. Police estimated that about 9,000 people turned out for the biggest anti-government demonstration in Seoul in months and various leaders took to the stage to address the crowd. "Park has lost her authority as president and showed she doesn't have the basic qualities to govern a country," Jae-myung Lee, from the opposition Minjoo Party and the mayor of the city of Seongnam, told the protesters from a stage. Calls persist for Park to reshuffle her office and Cabinet after admitting that she provided longtime friend Choi Soon-sil drafts of her speeches for editing. A televised apology did little to assuage the rage and she remains under fire for a heavy-handed leadership style that many see as lacking in transparency. Mix in speculation that Choi meddled in government decisions on personnel and policy and exploited her ties with Park to misappropriate funds from nonprofit organizations and it would seem that this whole mess is only going to grow uglier, nastier and more embarrassing from here……..


- Low blow, Drake. You can take a run at Meek Mill because Meek Mill was happy to start a fight with you even though he was claearly fighting out of his weight class. But firing unprovoked shots at Kid Cudi, who checked himself into rehab earlier this month for ‘depression and suicidal urges,’ that’s just not cool. Yet the most famous fan of the loser of last year’s NBA Eastern Conference finals - hooray for second-best, eh Toronto Raptors? - decided recently to mock Cudi in a new song, ‘Two Birds, One Stone’, rapping: “You were the man on the moon / Now you just go through your phases / Life of the angry and famous.” It was a track Cudi fans rightly took as an insult in very poor taste. Drake hasn’t said much since then and Cudi has limited his social media activity during his time in rehab, so this hasn’t blown up much - until now. Kid Cudi took to Twitter to send Drake a message: “Say it to [my] face, pussy,” Cudi wrote. “You think it’s a game. I wanna see you say it to my face. I’ll be out soon. Promise.” He went on to thank his fans for the “unfathomable” love he’s received since he revealed his mental health problems and in all honesty, this is one Drake needs to let go. He’s not going to go to rehab and talk junk to a guy dealing with depression and suicidal thoughts and keeping this one going just makes him look bad. Go back to pounding Meek Mill because while it’s depressing to see that one-sided fight, at least the Mill isn't dealing with serious mental health issues………

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