- What does it take to reunite one of the most enigmatic,
mysterious bands in rock and roll years after their curious split? The single
most heinous, racist, bigoted and xenophobic presidential candidate in the
history of the United States, that’s what. Yes, Jack and Meg White went their
separate ways years ago, with her dropping off the map and him becoming the
dark, cryptic and hipster-ish embodiment of an undertaker crossed with a record
label boss. But they’ve temporarily reunited to publicly condemn Republican
presidential candidate Donald Trump after their song 'Seven Nation Army' was
used in a promotional video for the human candy corn with a dead weasel stapled
to its tip. The duo issued a statement through White’s Third Man records and
minced no words. "Regarding the use of ‘Seven Nation Army’ in a Donald
Trump campaign video, The White Stripes would like to unequivocally state that
they have nothing whatsoever to do with this video. They are disgusted by this
association, and by the illegal use of their song.” What’s odd is that a
fan-made video soundtracked by 'Seven Nation Army' went viral over the summer,
but that video wasn’t directly tied to the Trump campaign. Perhaps making this
all the more offensive, there is a 0 percent chance Trump has any idea who the
White Stripes are or has ever actually listened to any of their songs. But the
song that will really fit Trump once he loses next month is “Walking With a
Ghost,” because a ghost is all that will remain of his campaign come the second
Tuesday in November………
- Thanks for the warning, Polisario Front independence movement.
Most of the time, rebel fronts don’t clue the world into the fact that they’re
about to revive their long-running confrontation with Morocco over the disputed
Western Sahara. According to the movement’s leaders, they’re much closer to
resuming confrontation than to peace and Ould Salek, the movement's foreign
relations chief, urgently appealed to the U.N. Security Council to hold the
referendum on the future of Western Sahara promised in a 1991 cease-fire
agreement with Morocco. Salek said "the situation remains very tense, very
dangerous" in a buffer strip in southwestern Western Sahara where Moroccan
security forces are facing Polisario Front fighters. To further amp up the
drama, Salek claimed that all that’s really needed to set this mo-fo off is
someone to light the smallest spark. "Anything can start the
confrontation," Salek cautioned. According to a confidential U.N.
document, Morocco violated the 1991 cease-fire agreement by sending armed
personnel into the area without prior notice to U.N. peacekeepers. However,
that same document stated that the Polisario Front also violated the cease-fire
when it responded by deploying its fighters. In other words, but sides f*cked
up and now the Polisario Front is trying to act as if its misstep doesn’t count
or that Morocco somehow screwed up worse and therefore, the U.N. needs to meet
the movement’s demands and meet them now or else, sh*t is about to go
south………..
- Rather than “internally address referee Pete Morelli's
recent microphone gaffe,” maybe the NFL should see this as an opportunity.
Sure, having one of its officials drop a four-letter bomb on an entire stadium
full of people seems offensive at first glance, is it really such a bad thing?
During Sunday's game between the Buffalo Bills and New England Patriots,
Morelli left his microphone on during a timeout and the crowd heard him say:
"Turned into a pretty good game. But one big hit, this s--- could
explode." He merely said what a lot of people in the stadium were probably
thinking and this was nothing like the incident in 2013 when the league
suspended umpire Roy Ellison for a profane and derogatory comment made to
Washington Redskins offensive lineman Trent Williams. Morelli was merely
talking to his crew and made a comment without making sure he’d switched off
his microphone, yet his was one of what had to be thousands of profanities
uttered within the venue that day. Gillette Stadium isn't a place one goes if
that person expects to hear nothing but good, clean language and see wholesome,
family entertainment. Maybe it’s a good thing that NFL fans now know that the
guys being paid hundreds of thousands of dollars to officiate their favorite
team’s games every season talk and think just like them………
- It’s a vexing question that up to this point hasn’t had a
legit, worthwhile answer. How does one go about raising and perhaps even
doubling the value of a 2000 Chevrolet Blazer with six-figure mileage, its
share of wear and tear and little aesthetic value? Enter Larry Hall, a Randolph
County, N.C. man who owns just such a 2000 Blazer and decided to do a little
exterior redecorating by covering his entire vehicle with pennies. He used some
51,300 copper spheres embossed with the likeness of Abraham Lincoln to give the
vehicle a brand new color scheme and while the pennies have a collective value
of $513, the odds of anyone stealing them or even trying to deposit the entire vehicle
at the bank are low because Hall actually affixed them to the SUV quite well.
"I had to put them on one-by-one and it took about seven weeks and six or
seven hours a day," he said. "It took 80 tubes of silicone glue and
three gallons of fiberglass boat glue." Also worth noting here is that
Hall definitely doesn’t have any true friends because if he did, he would have
had something much better to spend that $513 - plus the cost of materials - on,
those friends would have confronted him about what a lame idea this was and
they would have suggested that he find a better hobby to occupy his time. But
having no such friends, Hall has both the time and the money to glue the
pennies back on when they fall off and keep his curiously colored ride rolling
down the street in style………
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