- Cleveland hasn’t been a city known for its great jobs over
the years. However, working in a city with a (allegedly) very corrupt police
department where the river once caught on fire and where the terms Rust Belt
and industrial decay have never felt more at home has never been more hazardous
than when it pertains to attempting to quarterback the NFL’s lone remaining
winless team in 2016. On Sunday, rookie quarterback Cody Kessler became the
latest Cleveland Browns signal caller to end up in the hospital and fellow
rookie Kevin Hogan took his place, becoming the team’s sixth starting
quarterback on the season. Kessler suffered a concussion with 7 minutes, 27 seconds left
in the first half of Sunday's 31-17 loss to the Cincinnati Bengals and in came
Hogan as lucky No. 6 to run the offense. He followed in the
pain-medication-enabled footsteps of Robert Griffin III, Josh McCown, Terrelle
Pryor, Charlie Whitehurst and Kessler and finished 12-of-24 for 100 yards and
two interceptions in the Browns' loss, which kept Cleveland (0-7) winless this
season. "These quarterbacks only have so many these hits in their body,
you know? Pretty soon, guys don't get up all the time, and that's what's been
happening. It's unfortunate. It's just been happening way too much,"
Browns coach Hue Jackson said. It’s hard to determine if having used as many
starting quarterbacks as your team has losses is a bad thing or a terrible
thing, but given that one of the quarterbacks the Browns managed to sniper was
Charlie “Clipboard Jesus” Whitehurst, it really might take a miracle to turn
this dumpster fire of a season around………
- Arizona law enforcement takes all kinds of suspects into
custody, ones that hail from many different countries and speak different
languages in committing all sorts of crimes. This past week brought an unusual
suspect to that collection, as Arizona State Troopers sprung into action to
corral a long-legged big bird wandering the highway. Officers were called into
action after an emu was spotted on the Interstate 10 and ever the comedian,
Arizona Department of Public Safety spokesman Quentin Mehr hopped on the
department’s Twitter feed to let the world know what was happening. "Wild
day on I-10 west of Phoenix. Emu on the loose!!” Mehr tweeted. According to
authorities, the animal crossed the median and onto the dirt shoulder of the
roadway, helping calm the situation down rather than continuing its flight
(#emuhumor) and evading police further. Eventually, a state agricultural official
used a lasso to capture the bird and placed it into a transport trailer.
"And the emu, and motorists are safe," Mehr tweeted. The bird may
have been grounded, but it’s still a mystery how the emu got loose and onto a
busy highway in the first place. "We do not know where the emu came from.
I am unaware of any emu farm in that area and, I believe, the Phoenix Zoo is
the nearest zoo," Mehr said of the incident. The real question is whether
this was an illegal Mexican emu that could have been stopped if only Donald
Trump’s massive border wall truly existed outside of his fragile, deluded
little mind………
- Threat or promise, Kanye West? The egomaniacal rapper has
said that he’ll boycott the Grammys if Frank Ocean‘s recent album isn’t
nominated and while Ocean’s release is a quality one that should be strongly
considered, the possibility of keeping an attention whore like West away from
the Grammys is awfully enticing. He’s currently on his Saint Pablo tour and
took time out of a recent performance in Oakland to comment on the Grammys.
“The album I listen to the most this year is Frank Ocean’s album,” he said.
“I’ll tell you this right now: If his album’s not nominated in no categories,
I’m not showing up to the Grammys.” That could just be a guy who’s up on stage
talking out his backside and doesn’t intend on following through on his words,
but West did work with Ocean on the track “Wolves” and noted that he has worked
with the singer previously. He also addressed Ocean’s reported falling out with
Def Jam, which led to Ocean releasing a smokescreen visual album one day before
he dropped the project he really wanted to release independently. “They get
smacked in they face over political bullshit,” West said before encouraging the
head of the Grammys to “come and holla at Ye.” Ocean recently gave his first
interview in three years and hasn’t really done much to promote his album “Blonde”
or its visual companion album “Endless,” creating an extra air of mystery
around both releases as he moves forward from his critically acclaimed 2012
album “Channel Orange.” If Kanye has his way, Ocean will be speaking at length
about his latest work when he accepts his Grammy in a few weeks…….
- And the battle heats up. Control of Venezuela hangs in the
balance and after a court killed opposition lawmakers’ chances for staging a
recall referendum to throw out unpopular President Nicolas Maduro this year,
the legislature is swinging back. Opposition legislators gathered at a special
session as pro-government militia members rallied outside the capitol building,
with the legislature plotting ways to strike back at the court and the corrupt
members of the government doing all they can to stifle dissent and keep the
country’s increasingly unpopular dictator in power. Lawmaker Julio Borges said
the opposition-held congress is now in open rebellion against a government it
says has no respect for the constitution and in their not-so-secret meeting,
the lawmakers debated a variety of measures to force a political change,
including an effort to replace national elections officials and Supreme Court
judges, and a move to take legal action against Maduro for what they call his
disregard of constitutional order. They have plenty of international support in
their quest, as the court’s controversial ruling drew condemnation from the
U.S. State Department and the Organization of American States. None of that is
going to pry power from Maduro’s cold, despotic hands, but the quest to oust a
dictator and the hand-picked successor to the late dictator Hugo Chavez simply has
to start somewhere……
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