- That is how you make an impact as a top-notch college
football recruit with national signing day approaching. James Robinson, a wide
receiver ranked highly nationally in the 2017 recruiting class by most every
recruiting service, was paying a late visit to Ohio State because the team lost
a commitment from Tyjon Lindsey, a five-star receiver from Last Vegas’s Bishop
Gorman. Robinson made his way from Lakeland, Fla. to see Columbus for himself
and clearly, he understands that any elite college football program needs guys
on its roster who know how to have a good time and are willing to walk the line
of breaking the law. That’s why this four-star recruit can remove Ohio State
from a list that is believed to include the Buckeyes, Clemson, Florida,
Oklahoma and Oregon. His status with Ohio State took a big hit because he
apparently likes to take big hits from the nearest bong, a fact he confirmed
when he was issued a citation last weekend for marijuana possession during his
visit to Columbus. According to Franklin County Municipal Court records,
Robinson was found with marijuana at an off-campus apartment. The good news for
him is that in Ohio, possession of up to 100 grams of marijuana is considered a
minor misdemeanor and violators are cited and fined up to $150. He won't face
any jail time, this won't be part of his criminal record and as long as he pays
his $93 fine and means what he said when he tweeted an apology for
“embarrassing myself, family, teammates, school community and those that
support me,” then the biggest loss here should be his chance to play for Urban
Meyer in Columbus for the new few years………
- Riot Watch! Riot Watch! Greece is still giving ‘em hell,
with them being the government and the international bailout lenders the
government is working with to keep their country from total fiscal collapse. The
current angry mob raging against the government machine is comprised of angry farmers
in northern Greece staging sporadic highway blockades to protest austerity
measures imposed as part of the country's commitments to those aforementioned
bailout lenders. Using what they have to affect what they can, the farmers used
tractors to block highways for several hours at multiple sites, disrupting
traffic as well as a commercial transportation route to neighboring Macedonia. Had
that been the extent of the demonstration, it would have been a bit of a dud,
but the protesters also briefly clashed with police and forced their way
through a cordon near the Greek-Macedonian border. The brawl ended with a
win-win for all involved as no arrests or injuries were reported, leaving
everyone to tractor-block and riot another day. The reason the farmers are so
angry right now is that they’ve been bombarded in recent weeks with higher
taxes on their income, land and fuel as the government grapples with
international pressure to meet ambitious budget deficit targets. The protests
have been going strong for a week and are only expected to intensify as those
impacted by the new measures continue their fight to have those measures
reversed………
- The rumors persist and so “Donnie Darko director Richard
Kelly has been compelled to respond to suggestions that there could be more
movies made in the franchise. The cult favorite flick was released in 2001 and
was something of an introduction for many movie fans to Jake Gyllenhaal, Maggie
Gyllenhaal and Jena Malone, along with established stars such as Drew Barrymore
and Patrick Swayze. Kelly was not on hand with a 2009 sequel and yet eight
years later, some fans are still clamoring for another addition to the
franchise. Kelly sounds like a man who’s either not interested or is subtly
lobbying for a bigger payday, saying he has been “working on a lot of different
projects” and plans “to be back behind a camera in 2017.” However, he left the
door open just enough for a studio to drive a Brinks truck through it. “I think
there’s something much bigger and more ambitious to do in that universe. It’s
big and expensive and I think there’s time to get to that. I want to make sure
we’ve got the budget to do it justice and not to compromise anything,” Kelly
said. “Another story in this world needs resources and we need to have that in
place. I need to get my next film out of the gate and then we can go back and
look at it.” The director previously said he felt “angry and filled with rage” in
the wake of the “horribly violating” 2009 sequel, so maybe this is his chance
to right what went wrong there and reclaim control of the franchise. He claims
to have never seen that first sequel, so maybe he’s trying to pretend it never happened
and now, pave right over top of it……….
- #BecauseIdaho. It’s a place where a family can get out of
bed on a Sunday morning, stroll down to the basement looking to spend a little
quality time together and come face to face with a moose. That’s not happening
in a lot of places in America, but in Idaho, it’s just another day in the
middle of nowhere - in this case known as Hailey, Idaho. There, a female moose
apparently fell into a 3-foot deep window well and made its way into the home,
leaving the concerned residents to call the Hailey Police Department for
assistance. “The window opened like a door and the latch was loose,” Lt. Steve England
said. “The moose pushed her way through and, amazingly enough, the window
didn’t even break.” Local police responded to the home along with Blaine County
Sheriff deputies and Idaho Fish and Game officers and did whatever the hell
people do when there’s a moose loose in the family room. “They put some
furniture and mattresses around the room to kind of keep the moose enclosed in
one area of the basement,” England noted. “Fortunately she wasn’t hurt and
remained pretty calm.” Fish and Game officers got to the home after the moose
had been in the basement nearly two hours and tranquilized the animal, with all
of the officers on the scene working together to tote the misguided moose up
the stairs and out the front door. Once the moose was outside the home, which
is located in the Della View subdivision near the Big Wood River, it was slowly
woken from its slumber and released back into the wild, hopefully with a
payment agreement in place for the damage it caused……….
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