- You can get into an elite institution of higher learning,
but that doesn’t necessarily mean you can count. As evidence, take the curious
case of Bryant University basketball player Ikenna Ndugba, who received an
emphatic reminder to always double-check the scoreboard in end-of-game
situations, lest you end up as the guy getting clowned on all of the sports
highlight shows for dribbling out the clock to end a game in which your team
trailed by a point and needed a basket to win. Ndugba and the Bulldogs were
trailing Brown by a point, 91-90, after the lead changed hands several times in
the final minute of the game in Providence, Rhode Island when Ndugba, a
freshman from Boston, lost track of the score after a layup gave Brown a
one-point edge. Thinking his team still had the lead, dribbled the ball
circuitously to half court and heaved it into the air and went looking for a
high-five from a teammate after releasing the ball. What he encountered was a
befuddled teammate who wondered how the hell someone so stupid was on his team
as Brown players mobbed the court in celebration. Instead of Ndugba attempting
a game-winning shot, Tavon Blackmon's last-second layup helped Brown improve to
3-4. The good news for Ndugba and his unfortunate teammates is that the game
was a non-league contest and will have no bearing on the postseason fate of a
team that is now 2-5. In between now and that postseason, Ndugba’s coaches and
teammates might want to do a little bit of math education with their
teammate…….
- Where are you when the world needs you, Duane “Dog the
Bounty Hunter” Chapman? Chapman and his motley family crew of tattooed,
mulleted, pony-tailed, leather-clad bounty hunters spend most of their time
tracking down troubled bail jumpers in America’s most pleasant state, but maybe
it’s time to leave the comfortable confines of Hawaii behind and head due east,
all the way to eastern Europe, where a Hungarian lawmaker says the government
will spend up to 100 billion forints ($340 million) to provide equipment and
basic supplies for 3,000 "border hunters" being recruited to guard
border fences built last year to stop the flow of migrants trying to enter the
country. Lajos Kosa, head of the governing Fidesz party's parliamentary group,
laid out the case for rolling out big money, noting that the expenditures will
be exempt from having to comply with public procurement rules. When it comes to
keeping undesirables out of your country, it’s clear that rules and standards
cannot stand in the way. Kosa and his compatriots are clearly on edge after
some 400,000 migrants and refugees passed through Hungary last year on their
way to Western Europe. In response, Prime Minister Viktor Orban ordered fences
built on the country's southern borders with Serbia and Croatia, with migrants
who get past the fence but are caught near the border typically expelled right
away. In trying to drum up support for his new policy, Kosa said the government
was expecting another wave of migrants next spring. Somewhere, Human Traffic
Cone-Elect Donald Trump is smiling……..
- Canada, weren’t you supposed to be the world’s most polite
country? It’s fine if you no longer want that label and this is a damn fine way
to show it, by clowning one of your very own, a native band that has sullied
your already-tarnished musical reputation almost beyond repair with its special
brand of d-baggish, lyrically stunted, incredibly unsophisticated arena rock,
but it’s still a cold hustle. It comes courtesy of the Kensington Police
Service, which serves the 146,283 residents of Prince Edward Island and is sick
and tired of liquored-up Canucks who down one too many cases of Labatt’s Blue
and get behind the wheel. The department knows that Canada’s 10-month winter is
about to enter its most punishing, depressing stretch and realizes that could
drive people to drink and drive. In a preemptive strike, the department
announced a truly terrifying deterrent to would-be drunk drivers: Nickelhack. “When
we catch you, and we will catch you, on top of a hefty fine, a criminal charge
and a year’s driving suspension we will also provide you with a bonus gift of
playing the offices [sic] copy of Nickelback in the cruiser on the way to jail,”
the department wrote in a Facebook post, complete with a picture of the poseur
rockers’ third album, “Silver Side Up.” “Now, now, no need to thank us, we
figure if you are foolish enough to get behind the wheel after drinking then a
little Chad Kroeger and the boys is the perfect gift for you. Please, lets not
ruin a perfectly good unopened copy of Nickelback. You don’t drink and drive
and we won’t make you listen to it.” It’s a fair bargain and one that should
ensure that someone walks away very disappointed at the department’s annual
white elephant gift exchange…….
- Someone in Paradise Valley, Arizona has a f*cked-up,
racist and possibly illegal sense of humor. That person turned what was
supposed to be a special moment in the life of a local Jewish teen into a
lesson on idiocy and intolerance. The teen’s birthday party was marred because some
partygoers decided to decorate their cupcakes with swastika symbols. The
incident went from a reason to never be invited to another party again to a
major social media scandal after the teen’s mother posted images of the
Nazi-themed cupcake on Facebook, writing that she hoped it could be used as a
teaching moment for parents. The best part is that all of the girls involved in
the incident are friends, according to the post, and they told the victim’s
mother that they drew the symbols of hate on the sweet treats in an effort to be
funny. Here’s a life lesson, ladies: If you’re old enough to be labeled a
teenager, then you’re old enough to understand the general concept of what a
swastika means and how much hate, anger and evil that symbol carries with it,
especially for a Jewish person. So you drawing it on a cupcake isn’t some bad
joke that didn’t go over well - it’s proof that you’re clueless, oblivious and
probably not that smart. Where did the inspiration for this sad display come
from? Apparently, the girls at the party had just had a lesson on the
holocaust, so it was fresh in their minds. In a subsequent Facebook post, the
victim’s mother said the girls had apologized and that their parents had spoken
with them about the severity of using symbols such as a swastika. Sadly, it’s
hard to cure someone of any age of being a moron………
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