- Quite a week you’re having, Alabama. Your governor finally
owns up to the (diluted) consequences of being an adulterous, scheming,
conniving and legally manipulative piece of sh*t who had an affair and used all
manner of state resources to try to cover it up and just as he’s on his way out
the door, your state senate votes to curiously allow a church to form its own
police force. Yes, Alabama Senate has voted 24-4 to allow Briarwood
Presbyterian Church in Birmingham to establish a law enforcement department and
before you ask why a Presbyterian church in a Bible-centric state would need
its own police force with guns and all, just know….it’s a damn good question.
The church’s answer to that question would be that it needs its own police
officers to keep its school as well as its more than 4,000 person congregation
safe and it’s worth asking…what the hell kind of neighborhood do these folks
worship in? Yes, the state has given a few private universities the authority
to have a police force, never a church and critics smartly counter that having
a police department that reports to church officials could allow the church to
cover up crimes and misdeeds within. A similar bill is now before the state
House of Representatives and with each yes vote, the pew dwellers at BPC are
one giant step closer to being able to both keep God’s law and enforce their
own once the sermon comes to an end………
- Bitter much, Ian McShane? McShane is McChafed when it
comes to the 2012 movie “Snow White And The Huntsman,” in which the veteran
actor played a dwarf leader called Beith in a movie starring Kristen Stewart
and Chris Hemsworth. Maybe McShane is cranky because when people think of the
movie, which is rare because it wasn’t exactly an Oscar contender for Best
Picture, they don’t think of he or his fellow dwarves, played by Bob Hoskins,
Toby Jones, Ray Winstone, Nick Frost, Eddie Marsan, Johnny Harris and Brian
Gleeson. When asked about the roles the dwarves played in the movie, McShane
let rip with some less-than-complimentary views. “The less said about that the
better. We were the best things in the movie. But by the time we’d spent six
hours getting fake asses and prosthetics, we only had three hours to shoot in,”
he fumed. “These people pay you a lot of money and you want it to be good. But
sometimes you want to say, ‘Hey guys, you know, get it together.’” It’s amazing
that with his stellar attitude, McShane did not return for last year’s sequel,
2016’s “The Huntsman: Winter’s War,” which offset his immense loss by bringing
back Hemsworth with Charlize Theron and Emily Blunt, but not Stewart…….
- Pope Frank is at it again. Ol’ Frankie has done all sorts
of good deeds for the poor of Rome and the Vatican, most notably opening free
barber shop and showers under the Vatican Colonnade and setting up a dormitory
for homeless men near St. Peter's Basilica in 2015, but clearly there are
pieces of the equation he hasn’t reached quite yet. One of those omissions has
now been addressed, as the guy with the most righteous funny hat in the world
has opened a new laundromat for the homeless to wash and dry their clothing.
The laundromat, near the Vatican, has six washing machines and dryers and is
already welcoming those who may not have a deep and varied wardrobe, but still
need to keep what little clothing they have clean. Those who have made use of
the facility have expressed incredible gratitude to the pontiff, as many of
them have never had the chance to use a washing machine of any kind. They’ve
been spotted carefully placing their clothing in the washing machines and
watching it spin around and around. Finding an opening in the laundromat’s
schedule may not be easy, as it will only remain open four days a week and
services are free. Still, it’s more proof that unlike certain American
politicians elected to their nation’s highest office recently, Pope Frank
hasn’t forgotten his promises from his candidacy to help those most in need of
a little assistance to get their lives back on track. Even a dude in a funny
hat can do a lot of good with a shave, a haircut and some newly washed
clothing.……..
- Soccer, you’ve done it again. You’ve proven that your
sport and acts of violence and even terrorism are too often synonymous and the
world saw it again when three explosions rocked the Borussia Dortmund team bus
as it was driving to their home stadium for a scheduled Champions League match,
injuring defender Marc Bartra and causing the game to be postponed. The contest
was to be a quarterfinal first leg against Monaco, but it was pushed back by a
day as the German club confirmed that Bartra had suffered a broken wrist and
was undergoing surgery after windows were shattered in three explosions near
the team bus. The bus was departing for the Westfalenstadion and it sounds like
this was no random incident. "Initial findings make police believe that
there was an attack with serious explosives. Those explosives might have been
hidden in a hedge near a parking lot,” police said in a statement. According to
a public prosecutor, a note claiming responsibility for the incident was found
near the site of the explosions and police are working to authenticate it while
investigating the case as one of potential attempted homicide. It’s the latest
in a growing line of terror attacks surrounding major international soccer
matches and that doesn’t even take into account the terror rained down on the
pitches, stadiums and immediate vicinities of soccer venues by hooligans a)
celebrating a big win, b) rioting after a bad loss, c) irate over a referee’s
decision or d) because #hooligansgonnahooligan………
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