- Crazy Rod Duterte isn’t the only armed maniac in the
Philippines. No, the psychotic dictator isn't alone because his government is
now battling communist guerrillas as they try to reach a cease-fire accord and
a peace pact with New People's Army rebels. To facilitate that goal, Ragin’ Rod’s
Regime announced that it would suspend
offensives against the guerrillas to reciprocate a similar plan by the
insurgents and allow troops to focus on quelling a bloody siege by Islamic
State group-aligned militants that has dragged on for nearly a month in a
southern city. Philippine negotiator Silvestre Bello III noted that the
government move is aimed at greasing the skids for talks and since troops have
been battling communist and Muslim militants simultaneously in the country's
south, temporarily removing one item from their plate should help. "The
Philippine government hereby correspondingly reciprocates with the same
declaration of not undertaking offensive operations against the New People's
Army," Bello said in a statement. Terms are unclear, but there is
definitely a lot of work to do given that in the face of the peace overtures,
Philippine troops killed five communist rebels in separate clashes in the south
while the guerrillas stormed a police station in a central town and seized a
dozen assault rifles and pistols over the weekend. It was a bloody weekend in
which three communist guerrillas were killed in Davao Oriental province and two
others died in Compostela Valley in separate clashes with army troops. The most
action occurred in the central town of Maasin in Iloilo province, where nearly 50
communist rebels stormed a police station and seized 12 rifles and pistols,
two-way radios, laptop computers, jewelry and a patrol car. It was a bold move
the rebels claimed as a way to punish Maasin policemen for their alleged
involvement in extortion and for failing to stop the spread of illegal drugs
and gambling. Oddly enough, those are aims that would seem to jive well with
one Rod Duterte………
- The good news for Vince Young is that this is far from the
most embarrassing moment in his football career. Sure, it’s a major setback to
the former Heisman Trophy winner’s attempted comeback when he’s waived by the
CFL's Saskatchewan Roughriders, but in no way is this the lowest of lows he’s
experienced on the gridiron. Young tore a hamstring earlier this month and had
missed out on the Roughriders' preseason game against Winnipeg and according to
his agent, Leigh Steinberg, he’s expected to miss four to six weeks with the
injury. That means he wouldn’t have been available when the Roughriders open
their season June 22 and could miss several more games, which is why the team
decided to let him go. Yes, he signed a two-year contract with a second-year
option with the Roughriders in March and making it less than three months with
a Canadian Football League team is a huge letdown, but Young would do well to
remember that he announced his retirement from the NFL after being released by
the Cleveland Browns in 2014 and if the Browns decide you have nothing to
offer, THAT is when your football existence ceases to have meaning. Add to that
sad list of un-accomplishments the fact that Young hasn't played in an NFL
regular-season game since 2011 when he was with the Philadelphia Eagles and
it’s safe to say that he’s not exactly a candidate for Comeback of the Year in
the CFL, NFL, AFL or any other FL in the near future……..
- Idiots persist. So while search efforts go on for Paris
Wallace, the lead pastor of Connection Church in Grand Junction, Colorado, just
know that you may not want to root for this guy to be found the same way you
would for a child lost in the wilderness. That’s because this tool was lured
out into the rugged Southwest wilderness of New Mexico by urban legends of a
treasure chest of gold and jewelry hidden by an eccentric octogenarian author. That
myth was enough to lure a Colorado pastor to New Mexico, where said pastor is
now missing after his wife - hey, people marry kooks sometimes - reported him
not checking in and New Mexico State police say they have been told that the
man had come to Expanola in search of the treasure of Forrest Fenn. He came to
the Land of Enchantment in search of the treasure of Fenn, an eccentric author
who announced that he hid a chest full of gold and jewels worth at least $1
million somewhere in the Rocky Mountains in 2010. He’s inspired legions of
tools who believe that clues to the treasure’s whereabouts are hidden in his
writings. Police began their search in an area where they found Wallace’s
vehicle and located a backpack in the Rio Grande downstream from a tributary,
where a rope was found tied to a rock on the riverbank. The rope is believed to
be the one indicated on a receipt in Wallace’s vehicle, but the bad news for
his survival is that raging waters have prevented divers from accessing the
other side of the river where the rope was located. Here’s hoping this saga
ends well and that Wallae walks away alive, having merely sacrificed his
personal dignity in the desert and not his life………
- This is not the sort of long-lost song from a musical
legend that leaks out too often. Typically, an artist passes away and friends,
family members or bandmates amazingly “discover” a forgotten track or an entire
alnum of music they can then release and thereby cash in on the name and legacy
of their deceased loved one. In this case, the song was never recorded, but
instead penned and left inside an old piano bench. There, it was found by Olivia
Harrison, widow of Beatles guitarist George Harrison, who uncovered the lyrics
for ‘Hey Ringo’ in a folder of notes stored inside the seat in the couple’s
Oxfordshire home. According to Olivia Harrison, the song was intended for her
husband’s guitar playing and the drumming of his former bandmate, Ringo Star.
The lyrics include the lines: “Hey Ringo, now I want you to know, that without
you my guitar plays far too slow” and “I’ve heard no drummer who can play it quite
like you.” Accordging to Harrison’s widow, the track has been around for quite
some time, long before her husband’s death more than a decade ago. “There was a
folder in George’s piano bench and inside I found a typed lyric for Hey, Ringo.
It think it dates from around 1970,” Olivia Harrison said. She believes her
late husband recorded music for the track on a home cassette and added that the piano bench was “the stool Billy Preston
(Beatles organist) used to leap about on when he played with George.” She
delivered a copy of the lyrics to Starr at a party in Los Angeles commemorating
her husband’s 74th birthday in February and said Starr was totally surprised…….
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