- Great news, football fans: NFL commissioner/Stooge for NFL
Owners Roger Goodell has reviewed the case and determined that there is nothing
amiss in the case of none of the league’s 32 teams signing free agent
quarterback Colin Kaepernick. Kaepernick was once known for leading the San
Francisco 49ers to the Super Bowl in 2012, but now is best known because he
decided to kneel during the national anthem last season -- a choice he said he
made to raise awareness for social injustice and police brutality. After being
relegated to backup duty most of last season and producing at a so-so level
when injury to the starter returned him to the lineup, Kaepernick remains
unsigned, sparking speculation that teams are not signing him due to his
political stance and activism. But in a stunning twist, a man who makes nearly
$50 million a year working for NFL owners has come out in defense of those
owners and their decision not to sign a talented, capable quarterback. He took
his stance at Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum while onstage with NFL Network
personnel during the "Rams All-Access" event. As the self-serving
commish noted, "all want to get better. And if they see an opportunity to
get better as a football team, they're going to do it. They're going to do
whatever it takes to make their football team better. So those are football
decisions. They're made all the time. I believe that if a football team feels
that Colin Kaepernick, or any other player, is going to improve that team,
they're going to do it." That’s some Grade-A corporate bullsh*t, Rog. It
sounds nice on the surface - right up to the point you realize the Seattle
Seahawks brought Kaepernick in and let him walk out so they could sign career
third-stringer Austin Davis……..
- Nothing thrills quite like bitter border disputes between
Third World African nations. There are millions of impoverished, often
malnourished people whose lives and futures hang in the balance while despotic
leaders with shady business practices and the armies at their beck and call
wage war for aims that are never quite clear. One such skirmish is ongoing
along Africa’s east coast, where Eritrea's government is pointing fingers
because it claims Qatar has not yet explained why it withdrew 450 peacekeeping
troops from the East African nation's contested border area with Djibouti. On
one side, you have Djibouti accusing Eritrean troops of occupying the Dumeira
mountain area shortly after Qatar's peacekeepers left earlier this week and on
the other, Eritrea trying to figure out why the hell Qatar bailed. Maybe the
Middle Eastern nation, which is caught up in its own diplomatic clash with
other Arab nations, is tired of mediating a territorial dispute between
Djibouti and Eritrea, but right now no one knows. In a statement, Eritrea's
information ministry says Eritrea has not received any explanation from Qatar
on its "hasty" withdrawal, which it claims occurred "against the
backdrop of a turbulent climate." To further muddy the picture, Eritrea's
top diplomat to the African Union, Araia Desta, says the country has not cut
ties with Qatar and Eritrea has insisted it wants no confrontation with
Djibouti, but actions on both sides say a confrontation is all but
inevitable………
- The cultural appeal of “The Simpsons” has remained strong
for more than two decades. It remains a favorite of fans of adult cartoons,
including, it appears, hip-hop star Lil Yachty. The Lil One clearly enjoys
Bart, Homer, Marga, Lisa and their wacky friends because he recently performed
a special Simpsons-themed rap which name-checked 59 characters from the iconic
animated show in just three minutes. After dropping his debut album, ‘Teenage
Emotions,’ last month, Yachty was a special guest on “The Tonight Show with
Jimmy Fallon” and rather than play some wacky game with the host, he teamed up
with Fallon and his house band The Roots for a music-based sketch that paid
homage to the long-running Fox cartoon. Backed by three members of The Roots –
including drummer Questlove – Yachty tore through a fast-paced, reference-heavy
rap that managed to work no less than 59 different Simpsons characters into the
mix, including some bit players such as Hans Moleman, Ned Flanders and even Mr.
Burns’ “hired goons,” Crusher and Lowblow, who made their appearance in the
series’ classic “Last Exit to Springfield” episode. Given that the show has
churned along on a steady track for more than two decades and clearly still has
a strong following, it’s hard to see this lovefest ending any time soon……….
- America, your gun problem has officially been solved. It’s
been solved in Florida, of all places, where a man and his beloved machete took
care of three would-be robbers early in the morning and in the process, proved
that you need not reach for your sidearm in order to disarm intruders. The
Sarasota County man awoke just after 4:45 a.m. when several suspects targeted
his home on Dodge Avenue, intending to relieve the occupants and the property
of their valuables. The bad news for the robbers is that they didn’t do their
homework and thus, they attempted to thieve from a home that had both a
surveillance system and a rather cantankerous resident who was armed with a
massive knife. Footage from the home shows the hooded men bursting onto the
porch waving a shotgun, machete and crowbar, at which point one of the home’s
residents rushed to find his own machete, coming back with a fury and sending
the intruders scurrying. The actions of this bold homeowner inspired other
residents and neighbors, who soon rallied to the scene and gave chase as the
suspects fled and jumped over a fence to get away. According to the Sarasota
County Sheriff’s Office, the suspects were able to escape despite the best
efforts of the knife-wielding madman, his friends and even a small dog who
joined in the chase, but maybe next time, the suspects will do a bit more
research before they pick a particular house to attempt to burgle in the dead
of night……..
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