- Not all shoplifters are equal. Sometimes, a person
shoplifts because they have no integrity or moral compass and figure they can
take things because they want them and get away with it. Others are not even
old enough to drive or vote and go to the store and pick food off the shelves because
they don’t have any of it at home. A 14-year-old shoplifting candy from a
business in Rome, Georgia fell into the latter category and that’s why this
part of the teen’s story ends with a happy note rather than him being sent to a
juvenile detention facility. According to police, the teen gave the candy back
after he was caught and when two officers took him home, they found out that he
didn’t have any food at home. At that point, the officers decided not to simply
shrug their shoulders, back out of the driveway and head back to the station.
Instead, they took the boy shopping and bought him some groceries. "Lt. Walters spent well over $50 getting
him enough groceries to last a week," Rome police wrote in a post on their
Facebook page, including two photos of the officers buying the groceries. It
may not be a long-term solution for a boy (and his family) who aren't able to
keep food on the table, but it’s still nice to see a couple of officers who are
trying to help their community and willing to go beyond their normal duties to
do so………
- JJ Abrams is visiting a new universe for his next project,
one marked by lots of glitter, rouge, sequins and panache. Abrams is developing
a new TV series based on the rise of drag icon RuPaul and the idea makes a hell
of a lot of sense. Say what you will about RuPaul, but few have carved out the
long, profitable career this drag queen has by being someone else. RuPaul
already hosts the cult show “RuPaul’s Drag Race” and will serve as executive
producer on the project, which won't be a reality show, but rather present a
fictionalized look at the star’s youth and early career. Abrams is taking a
respite from the world Star Wars for the yet-untitled project, which is being
billed as a half-hour dramedy series that doesn’t yet have a network home. As
for RuPaul’s current project, “RuPaul’s Drag Race” is in its ninth season,
having recently moved to VH1” and being just one year removed from winning an
Emmy for Outstanding Host for a Reality or Reality-Competition Program. Its new
season kicks off this week with a cameo from Lady Gaga, whose appearance sees
the singer disguising herself as a drag queen on the show in front of a group
of contestants posing as her. It’s clearly a good time to be RuPaul, whose
career may be in its twilight, but who is clearly going to make the most of
every opportunity to be front and center until the next big drag queen rises up
and takes the top spot……..
- The rage is real in Bulgaria, where Sunday's parliamentary
elections have raised some major issues and led the natives to try to Trump-ify
their border with Turkey by using their bodies and willpower to prevent what
they called "electoral tourism" by Bulgarian citizens living
permanently in Turkey. Several hundred Bulgarian nationalists decided that the
best way to prevent people from voting whom they believed should not be
eligible to cast a ballot in an important election would be to block the three
main checkpoints at the Bulgarian-Turkish border to prevent undesirables from
getting in. The rousing event was organized by the good folks of the
nationalist United Patriots coalition, who claimed they had information that
some 1,000 buses with at least 50,000 voters from Turkey were expected to cross
the border ahead of the vote. Not only that, they claimed that Turkish
officials were forcing expatriate voters to support a pro-Ankara party, which
the nationalists consider a threat to Bulgarian national interests, leading to
some inspiring TV footage from the scene in which protesters carrying Bulgarian
flags and posters with the slogan, "We are defending Bulgaria and Europe,"
piled car tires as high as they could across the road to bring traffic to a
halt. One does have to wonder how they’re going to both find time to vote and
keep their beloved border safe from interference at the same time, but odds are
they’ll figure something out……
- Let the French have the damn Olympics. There are only two
cities left in the bidding to host the 2024 Olympic because the other potential
hosts have wised up and dropped out because hosting the Olympics is a dumpster
fire of an idea that sets a city up for fiscal ruin. The remaining contenders
are Paris and Los Angeles and in a bold move, the Paris bid team has thrown
down an ultimatum to the IOC: Give us the 2024 Summer Olympics of f*ck off. IOC
President Thomas Bach tried to couch the potential disappointment of one city
losing when the host city is chosen by raising the prospect of one city being
awarded 2024 and the other taking 2028 to avoid there being a loser. Six months
remain before the bid is awarded and the International Olympic Committee is
still unsure of how to proceed. Bach’s bold idea to solve a potentially awkward
situation - not only Paris or L.A. losing, but the possibility of no city being
dumb enough to bid for the 2028 Summer Olympics - is meeting resistance in a
big way. "We can't accept `28," Paris bid co-chairman Tony Estanguet
said. "It's not possible." Estanguet, a three-time Olympic champion
canoeist who became a member of the International Olympic Committee, represents
a city that has lost three straight bids to host the Games. "We're OK if
the IOC wants to give two games at the same session in Lima," Estanguet
said of the IOC Session in Peru. "But on our side, our project is only
possible for `24. We also believe this is the time to come back to Paris, or to
Europe, in `24.” How does this sound, Paris: Not only can you host in 2024, but
you can host the Olympics every time they take place, that way America doesn’t have
the looming headache of one of its cities being saddled with hosting duties………
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