- Nothing like asking the International Court of Justice to
reconsider a past decision it took months and months to reach. It takes a bold
nation-state to make such a request, so meet Bosnia, which has asked the United
Nation's top court to reconsider its 2007 ruling that cleared Serbia of
genocide during the 1992-95 Bosnian war. Bakir Izetbegovic, the Muslim Bosniak
member of Bosnia's tripartite presidency (a possible solution to our current
Traffic-Cone-In-Chief problems, America?), announced the filing of that request
with the ICC, a move made over the strenuous objections of Bosnian Serb presidency member Mladen Ivanic,
who contended that his absence from involvement with the request invalidated
it, which is of course one of the problems with having a three-headed presidential
monster running your country. Bosnia has been fighting this battle for a while
now, having initially sued neighboring Serbia before the international court in
1993 over its backing for the Bosnian Serbs' war effort. Unfortunately for
Bosnia, the U.N. court ruled in 2007 that a 1995 massacre in the Bosnian city
of Srebrenica of 8,000 Muslims by Bosnian Serbs was genocide - for which
someone other than Serbia was responsible. It was a devastating result for the
Bosnians, as evidenced by the fact that a decade later, its leaders - some of
them, anyhow - are still attempting to reverse it and gain the justice they
believe they were unjustly denied by the ICC the first time around…….
- Enjoy Ben Affleck’s sloppy seconds, Matt Reeves. Warner
Bros. has confirmed that Reeves will be responsible for directing the next
Batman film, stepping in after Affleck curiously hit the eject button amidst
rumors that he wanted to cut ties with the Batman franchise entirely, both as
its star and director. For now, he hasn’t completely severed those links, but
he will be replaced in the director’s chair by Reeves, who directed films such
as “Cloverfield” and “Dawn of the Planet of the Apes,” neither of which was
exactly hailed by anyone at all as a cinematic home run. Affleck claimed he
ceded the director’s chair to focus on his role as the movie’s leading man,
which is a predictable claim from a guy looking for a viable eject button.
“There are certain characters who hold a special place in the hearts of
millions,” he said. “Performing this role demands focus, passion and the very
best performance I can give. It has become clear that I cannot do both jobs to
the level they require.” Of course, because the scathing, nearly universally
bad reviews of Affleck’s debut as the caped crusader in last year’s “Batman v.
Superman: Dawn of Justice” had nothing to do with him taking one giant step
back from the next movie in the series. Affleck also penned a script for a standalone
Batman film but is also distancing himself from that project despite the fact
that filming is due to begin as soon as this spring. What we do know is that
Batman’s nemesis in the film will be the DC Comics character Deathstroke, but
what we don’t know is whether abdicating the director’s chair is the death
stroke for Affleck’s attachment to the Batman universe……..
- It’s nice to see nursing home employees go the extra mile
- or show some extra skin to make the day of an extremely elderly man who
probably thought he’d already experienced his last lap dance in this world. Meet
should-be Employee of the Month Brittany Fultz, a now-former worker at a
Sandusky, Ohio assisted living center who tried to bring much-needed joy to the
limited life of a 100-year-old resident and is now facing a charge of gross
sexual imposition because of her kindness and adventurous spirit. According to
police, Fultz was filmed performing a sexually provocative dance on the
centenarian resident, an act she was doing as a prank and trying to make the
man feel good, her attorney said. For the record, Fultz pleaded not guilty even
though she was fired after the integrity-lacking co-worker who dared her to do
the dance and filmed it showed the video to a supervisor, who reported it to
police. Detectives claimed that during the dance, Fultz showed her breasts and
buttocks while she danced in front of and on the man, who suffers from
dementia. He may not have known if what he was seeing was real, but Fultz's
attorney said the resident could have told her to stop but didn't. "The
man knew exactly what was going on and had no problem whatsoever with it,"
defense attorney Geoffrey Oglesby said. Amazingly, the second caretaker wasn't
charge, but according to supervisors at the facility, neither Fultz nor her
(alleged) partner in crime/joy-giving works at the business any longer. If only
those doing the investigating, accusing and prosecuting in this case could
appreciate the rarity and beauty of a 100-year-old man receiving a lap
dance/grind session from a woman approximately one-fourth his age…….
- If Charles Oakley makes an emphatic, public “eff you”
gesture, you keep your mouth shut and accept it. The New York Knicks poked an
aging, but still f-ing scary bear earlier this month when ass-hatted owner
James Dolan banned the former Knicks fan favorite from Madison Square Garden
following a bizarre incident in which security at the iconic arena accosted and
ejected Oakley, after which the team alleged inappropriate, abusive and
possibly drunken behavior on his part at the game. Those claims had no basis in
fact, but that didn’t stop the Knicks from piling on with a clumsily worded
statement blaming Oakley for the incident and inviting other former Knicks
stars to the next game to sit around Dolan in a transparently lame show of faux
support. Oakley has responded to the whole mess with class and dignity, but
that doesn’t mean he couldn’t deliver a massive middle finger to his former
team by sitting next to Cleveland Cavaliers owner Dan Gilbert as the Knicks
fell to the defending NBA champions 119-104. Oakley is a Cleveland native, so
he and his crew spun the appearance as merely him attending a game in his
hometown as he always done when visiting the place from which he hails. He was
asked when he would attend a game at Madison Square Garden and said he wasn’t
sure, even though the Knicks reversed their terrible decision recently by
lifting the ban. His attorney, Fred Nance, said the Cavs offered he and his
client the courtside seats when they learned Oakley planned to attend the game.
"Oak will be in his hometown of Cleveland," Oakley spokesman Akhtar
Farzaie said. "When in Cleveland, he always tries to attend a Cavs
game." Hopefully the sight of his nemesis sitting courtside by a rival
owner and once again bringing Dolan’s moronic actions to light was truly
embarrassing for the Knicks owner, but given the raging tire fire his team is
on the court and the joke his organization has been for the duration of his
ownership, not much could embarrass him at this point………
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