- Riot Watch! Riot Watch! It was an unusual one in Barcelona,
the centerpiece of a region that’s spent more than a year raging against the
Spanish machine in an effort to lead the region of Catalonia to independence
but is now the staging ground for a revolt that’s trying to demand that the
very Spanish government its people want to separate from alter its approach to
Europe’s ongoing refugee crisis. Thousands of angry Spaniards marched in
Barcelona to demand that Spain's conservative-led government up its efforts to
accept more refugees who have fled the war in Syria and other violent conflicts,
apparently because they don’t listen to U.S. Traffic-Cone-In-Chief Donald Trump’s
warnings that countries like Sweden are having massive problems on account of
taking in too many of those refugees. Spain promised to take some 17,000 of
these displaced souls, but so far has welcomed just 1,100 of them to the
Iberian Peninsula. Protestors toted a
large banner and small signs with the slogan "Enough Excuses! Take Them In
Now!" as they marched through the city’s historic center, reminding the
government of its September 2015 promise to bring 17,337 refugees in within two
years: 15,888 from camps in Italy and Greece and 1,449 from Turkey and Libya. Despite
a massive contingent of 66 refugees — 65 Syrians and one Iraqi — who arrived in
Madrid last week, the number currently sits at about 1,100 and it seems the
bleeding hearts of España want to extend their charity further……..
- Even one of the greatest soccer players in the world can't
bend the will of the law the way he can bend a long free kick into the upper
left corner of the goal, it seems. Neymar, hero of Brazilian soccer and FC
Barcelona, is now Neymar, defendant in a complaint brought by Brazilian
investment group DIS. The company is seeking damages on corruption charges
related to Neymar’s transfer to Barcelona four years ago and has filed suit
against Barcelona, Brazilian club Santos and the company run by Neymar's
parents. That collective lost its appeal and will stand trial on claims that
DIS was entitled to 40 percent of the transfer fee Barcelona paid Santos for
Neymar but received a smaller compensation because part of the fee was
concealed by those involved. But this isn't merely an instance of a matter
money alone can settle; prosecutors are seeking a two-year prison sentence and
a fine of nearly 10 million euros for Neymar and his father on corruption
charge. But fear not, soccer hooligans of the world, because that dynamic duo are
not likely to face any jail time if found guilty because they would be
first-time offenders. Still, the price tag could be high, as prosecutors are
seeking about $13 million from FC Barcelona and $10 million from Santos on the
grounds that DIS paid nearly $2 million or its 40 percent of Neymar's rights in
2009, but received a scant $24 million of Neymar’s transfer fee because FC
Barcelona claimed the transfer fee was just $74 million or so. If the claims in
the suit are accurate, DIS would be entitled to an additional $4.5 million or
so, and it would be another legal black eye for FC Barcelona just seven months
after star midfielder Lionel Messi and his father were sentenced to 21 months
in prison for tax fraud…….
- Jesus has lost his head twice now and members of an
Indiana church are mighty upset about it. Twice in a span of two weeks, a Jesus
statue outside a church on the south side of Indianapolis has been vandalized,
with the head being removed. “It makes me sad that somebody would do something
like that,” said pastor Brad Flaskamp. “I was hoping it was just a random act
to destroy it in the first place.” He and his flock at Cottage Avenue
Pentecostal Fellowship thought that the first attack on the inanimate likeness
of Jesus was merely a random prank, perhaps staged by local kids with too much
time and a wicked sense of humor, but that belief evaporated when it happened a
second time. Apparently in its five years of standing guard outside the church,
the statue kept its head until the last two weeks. After the first attack, the
statue’s head was left on the ground next to the body and with a lot of hard
work and quite a bit of super glue, church members were finally able to
reattach the head late last week. Rather than stand as a monument to their
determination, it apparently served as an open invitation to the vandal or
vandals to come back and repeat their feat, something they did within 24 hours.
“I can tell you that I don’t think it’s kids,” Flaskamp said. “It would have to
be a kid that can wield a sledgehammer.” Have you seen America’s youth these
days, pastor? There are some big, strong teenagers running around and they can
probably wield a sledgehammer just fine. Maybe this time, build a nice cage for
Jesus, stick him inside and keep him safe from the big, bad world around him…….
- Some might argue that Dante Basco is searching for his
lost (boy) relevance, along with a healthy chunk of cash. If you have no
f*cking idea who Basco is, don’t feel bad. Anyone who’s not a hardcore fan of
obscure characters from early ‘90s films doesn’t, but so you know, he played Lost
Boy Rufio in the 1991 Peter Pan movie “Hook.” Believe it or not, this E-list
actor who hasn’t done anything of note in the 26 years since that film wants to
revive his flagging career, er, take fans back to a magical time with a prequel
movie set years before “Hook.” The movie, ripping off its title from a Skrillex
song, is called “Bangarang” and this short film’s plot is described as ‘the
story about Rufio, before the mohawk, before Neverland, before he was The Pan.
Roofus is a 13-year-old kid who is destined to be more than he is.’ It’s
described that way by a Kickstarter campaign Basco launched to fund the
project. He’s reached his goal of $30,000 and now that he’s fleeced enough
suckers out of their disposable cash, he’s upping his target to $200,000 and if
he can hit that mark, he’ll take the idea from a short film to a feature film. “After
his mother is forced to put him into a foster home, he and his rag-tag group of
best friends, a Jamaican boy named Julani and a bright-eyed latina force of
nature named Ella, find a way for Roofus to escape his ill fate, find his happy
thought and fulfill his destiny,” the film’s synopsis reads. “The story has
been reverse engineered from what was set-up in Hook. We answer all the questions
you’ve ever wondered, How and why is Rufio the leader of the Lost Boys? Where
does “bangarang” come from? And of course, how he gets the mohawk.” The
synopsis even tackles the fool’s errand of claiming that it’s different than
the millions of other sequels, prequels and remakes being churned out by
Hollywood because, um, it’s not………
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