- Indians aren't paying their taxes and now, the government
is taking away the big bills from their wallets. In what the government is trying
to position as a major step in the battle against undeclared earnings,
corruption and fake currency, the country’s prime minister has announced the
scrapping of high denomination 500 and 1,000 rupee currency notes. Narendra
Modi delivered what was supposed to be a forceful speech carried live on radio
and television across the country, looking to reassure the masses by saying
people will be able to deposit these notes into their bank accounts until Dec.
30. There will also be temporary exemptions for some time when purchasing
medicine and buying airline and rail tickets, which tend to require a large
amount of money no matter where in the world you’re buying them. But Modi
didn’t merely point the finger at Indian citizens who are allegedly guilty of
trying to duck taxes or use bogus currency in the name of protecting their
personal wealth at the expense of their country; he also made a thinly veiled
reference to Pakistan in which he accused the neighboring country of
circulating fake Indian currency notes to damage its economy. That’s a weighty
accusation to throw around without some serious proof and believe it or not,
Modi didn’t produce any of that proof during his speech. Maybe that was an
intentional cliffhanger designed to keep people waiting his next speech with
baited breath, anxious to see if the prime minister is fully or only partially
full of sh*t………
- Fans of various pop culture figures have reveled in the
rise of crowdfunding websites as a means to create lasting tributes to their
heroes. The RoboCop statue at the city limits of Detroit still hasn’t happened
- damn you, broke-ass city on the brink of fiscal apocalypse - but maybe the
Brits can have better luck funding and erecting a statue of the man too
arrogant to be bothered to show up when his country hosted the Summer Olympics
in 2012, late rock icon David Bowie. Bowie passed away in January at the age of
69 and now, his fans are seeking funding for a new statue in tribute to his
legendary career. Supporters want to place the statue in the town of Aylesbury,
north of London, because back in 1971, Bowie debuted ‘Hunky Dory’ and ‘Ziggy
Stardust’ songs at the local Friars club. He also referenced the area’s Market
Square in the opening lines of ‘Five Years,” meaning the locals are eternally grateful
to him and want to host a massive likeness of him carved in some sort of stone
or durable metal. A Kickstarter campaign has been launched to finance the
statue, with organizers seeking about $140,000 for the project. So far, donors
have given about a quarter of that amount. Word on the street is that the
statue would be made of bronze, designed by sculptor Andrew Sinclair and
equipped with a working sound system that would play a Bowie song every hour
throughout the day and evening. That could be mighty annoying for anyone living
in the immediate vicinity who a) isn't a Bowie fan or b) is trying to sleep,
but the campaign will get a boost from Holy Holy, the band featuring Bowie
producer Tony Visconti, ‘Spiders From Mars’ drummer Woody Woodmansey and Heaven
17’s Glenn Gregory, which will play a set of Bowie covers at Friars Aylesbury
in April to raise funds for the statue………
- Is it time to assume that every men’s athletic team at
Harvard is guilty of having a disturbingly detailed, d-baggish breakdown of the
physical appearance and attractiveness of their female counterparts? First,
news broke that the men's soccer team's season created a document with sexually
explicit comments about the women's soccer team, breaking down female players’
sex appeal and other physical attributes in what it deemed a “scouting report.”
That revelation, which dates back several years but is alleged to have
continued in some form into the current season, led the school to cancel the
rest of the men’s team’s season, forcing the Crimson to forfeit their remaining
games. But it appears the men’s soccer d-bags were not alone, as the university
is now investigating a report that the men's cross country team created
sexually explicit documents about the women's cross country team. Athletic
director Bob Scalise, who should be getting pretty good at hosting these types
of news conferences and interviews given the amount of reps he’s been getting
lately, said he's asking school lawyers to look into claims that the men's
cross country team produced yearly spreadsheets about members of the women's'
team, sometimes rating their appearances and making lewd comments. But being
Harvard men, these skinny, glorified joggers didn’t make this spreadsheet at
any random time; no, it was created before an annual dance with the women's
team so the fellas could be well-prepared on who to pick up and who wasn’t
quite on their level. Not that any of this should surprise anyone because rich,
entitled young dudes who are also college athletes acting like low-life ass
hats is a revelation to no one………
- Baylor football just cannot stay out of its own way. A
program whose coach was fired for his and the school’s handling of allegedly
rampant sexual abuse committed by multiple players and which had another player
suspended earlier this season when he posted a video of him abusing a dog on
Snapchat will now be without its all-time leading rusher for a huge game
against Oklahoma because of "attitude issues," interim coach Jim
Grobe said. That would be Shock Linwood, who lived up to his name with a
surprising incident in which he shoved a graduate assistant coach on the
sideline during Baylor's 62-22 loss to TCU on Saturday. That prompted Grobe to
declare that Linwood has "some issues to work through,” and as such, he
won't be toting the rock when the Bears battle the Sooners this weekend.
"My plan right now is to not have Shock for Oklahoma. I think there's some
attitude issues right now," Grobe said. "It's not anything major.
It's not. ... If I throw out violation of team rules and all that, that sends
everybody off thinking the worst. But he's just not been himself. He's not
really been as focused as I think he needs to be, and he's in a tough
situation.” But it’s not really a tough situation at all; stop assaulting
mid-20s,
should-grow-up-and-stop-trying-to-extend-your-football-career-by-being-a-graduate-assistant
dudes on the sideline and all of this goes away. All in all, it’s surprisingly
hypocritical that a private, Christian university seems to have so many issues
with not assaulting women, animals or even fellow jocks and simply playing
football while being good citizens off the field…….
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