- Ahoy, matey. In this ballot box, there be pirates. In a
great electoral twist that could be used to inject a viable candidate or two
into America’s current presidential circus, Icelanders are voting this weekend
in a national election, one pitting the upstart - and yet very real - Pirate
Party against the center-right government. The Pirate Party, founded four years
ago by an assortment of hackers, political activists and Internet freedom
advocates, has gone from joke to viable threat to the establishment in that
time, gaining massive support from Icelanders fed up with established parties
after years of financial crisis and scandal. Heading into the weekend, polls
had the Swashbucklers in a close race with the center-right Independence Party
to become the biggest group in Iceland's parliament, the Althingi. This
opportunity to seize electoral and governmental glory came after then-Prime
Minister Sigmundur David Gunnlaugsson resigned in April amid protests over his
offshore holdings, revealed in the Panama Papers leak. For the parties trying
to wrest governing control of the fiscally troubled nation, a mere 245,000
Icelanders eligible to vote are all that stand between them and being able to
hoist the colors, slap on that eye patch, perch their loyal parrot on their
shoulder and chug from a half-empty bottle of rum as they survey the landscape
of their nation and set sail for what they hope will be a future filled with
plunder, bounty, wenches and chances to make their opponents walk the plank………
- The Tribe is about to call it quits. Hip-hop pioneers and
industry legends A Tribe Called Quest will release their final album next
month, founding member Q-Tip has confirmed. The hip-hop quartet, have been
largely dormant since releasing their most recent album, “The Love Movement,”
back in 1998, but were recently thrust back into the spotlight with the bad
news Phife Dawg’s passing back in March. They reunited to record new music
following an appearance on “The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon” – their first
televised performance in 18 years – back in November 2015, much to the delight
of their devoted fan base. Q-Tip recently posted a message on his Facebook page
announcing the final album, to be released Nov. 11, and which has yet to
receive an official title. However, Q-Tip did confirm that he, Phife, Ali Shaheed
Muhammad and Jarobi White entered the studio after that Fallon performance and
laid down an album that “was coming together nicely” when Phife died. He added
that Phife left behind “the blue print of what we had to do” and the remaining
members of the group continued to finish the album to “complete our paths of
rhythm,” an allusion to the group’s 1990 debut, ‘People’s Instinctive Travels
and the Paths of Rhythm.” The new album will also have some added muscle in the
form of contributions from long-term ATCQ collaborators Busta Rhymes and
Consequence, so it should be a fitting final chapter for a group that has
helped define the hip-hop genre over the past few decades……
- There are a lot of dudes in the Columbia, Illinois area
who now have a lot of ‘splaining to do to their significant others right now.
These dudes recently took part in the Metro East golf tournament, billed as a
fundraiser for the Make-A-Wish Foundation, and it appears that there were more
than a few golfers who strayed from the fairway that day, right into the
embrace of naked women performing sex acts right there on the course. The
tournament took place at a golf course in Columbia and apparently raised zero
dollars for the Make-A-Wish Foundation. A photographer for a local TV station
recorded video of women flashing their breasts and getting after it with
golfers and smartphone videos of women taking part in sex acts with golfers
soon surfaced. According to one golfer, more than a dozen women were at the
tournament, with some performing sex acts for cash. The ringmaster for this
three-ring circus of sporting freakery was tournament organizer Dennis
Daugherty, who insisted that he wasn’t aware of any sex acts taking place and
insisted that the event’s skank squad was merely “cute girls in bikinis serving
drink.s that's it.” That’s not the story told by one woman Daugherty asked to
participate in the tournament. She claimed he wanted her to help find “rich,
horny men" who would be willing to take part,” but she refused and told
others to do the same. What’s not up for debate is that the Make-A-Wish
Foundation received no money from the event, as Daughtery blamed low turnout
for the tournament. Oh, and he says he was contacted by the charity the day
before the event and told to take their name of the flyer and off any promotion
because he was never licensed to use the charity's name for any fundraising
activities. Columbia police were called to the course the day of the tournament
and Daugherty claims that they saw no evidence of illegal activity……..
- Give the man his car. Matt Kuchar may be one of the
highest-earning professional golfers in the world, but that doesn’t mean that
Shanghai HSBC Champions tournament should be jamming him up and refusing to
give him the car he won for his hole-in-one on the event’s par-3 17th hole.
Kuchar was waiting his turn to hit on the 17th, a hole that awards a shiny, new
Cadillac to any golfer who can put their first shot in the cup. However, when
Kuchar holed out, he didn’t get a car because of fine print on the prize
listing situated near the tee box. His caddie noticed the posting, which
explained that because the tee had been moved forward Saturday in the third
round, the hole played only 193 yards. That meant no prize because the hole had
to be at least 200 yards. ''Don't worry about a hole-in-one today. We don't get
the car,” caddie John Wood jokingly told Kuchar. In spite of those words,
Kuchar hit a perfect shot and it led to a 4-under 68 round - one that left
Kuchar bummed out. ''That was probably one of the saddest hole-in-ones I've
ever had,'' he said. ''Most of the time, a hole-in-one you're just overjoyed
with excitement. But then there's a car sitting there, the most beautiful
Cadillac on a tee. I was teased by this beautiful car sitting there that's not
to be mine.” He noted that his favorite car at home on Sea Island, Georgia, is
a 1972 Trailblazer that has been restored and what better way to take some of
the burden off a vintage car than by putting a shiny new Cadillac alongside of
it? Thanks for nothing, HSBC Champions tournament……..
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