But for some reason, the NFL doesn’t seem to care about what’s going on here.
My guess is that the league is looking the other way on purpose, tacitly approving this nonsense in an effort to hype the nationally televised opener. It doesn’t get any lower than that. And I guarantee that on opening night in New Orleans, the great Twitter feud between Darren Sharper and several Vikings will be mentioned before the TV broadcast is 30 seconds old.
Apparently, the NFL has not had enough bad publicity as a result of Ben Roethlisberger’s disgusting actions. Or retired icon Lawrence Taylor’s high-profile liaison with an alleged underage prostitute. Or Shaun Rogers’ stroll through an airport with a loaded gun. Or any of the half-dozen or so domestic violence cases since Super Bowl XLIV. Or any of the half-dozen or so DUIs since then.
This film features an unbelievable amount of drug use, to the extent where it’s almost funny, which is in fact the point; if dark and sadistic humour isn’t for you then steer well clear. The actual storyline of the film is erratic, and I felt out of depth with new plot twists and characters. However, there are some genuinely funny and bizarre moments in the film, most centring around Terence’s drug hallucinations that take the intense and complicated edge off the action. Overall, I feel that the film lacks an agreed direction, in that it couldn’t decide what it wanted to be; on the one hand, it’s a chilling and tense tale of corruption, but on the other it’s an amusing and almost peculiar approach to issues such as drugs, violence and prostitution. If ‘strange’ is how you like your films, then this is definitely a must-see.
New Orleans Adult Entertainment: Anti-ACORN Videographer Pleads Guilty In Senate Phone Tapping Case
May 31, 2010
ACORN had enlisted former Massachusetts Attorney General Scott Harshbarger to conduct an internal review, which found that the footage was “edited substantially” and that employees had not violated laws. Earlier this year, Brooklyn District Attorney Charles Hynes cleared the organization of wrongdoing, a conclusion that was blasted by conservatives as a whitewash.
But it was only when the full, unedited videos were obtained by California Attorney General Jerry Brown from O’Keefe last month in exchange for immunity that the truth was revealed.
The raw videos revealed that O’Keefe and his associate, Hannah Giles, were not dressed as a pimp and prostitute when they entered ACORN offices to ask about the trafficking of female minors. The unedited footage showed that O’Keefe had posed as a law student and wore a shirt and tie during his actual conversation with ACORN workers. Shots of him and Giles wearing their pimp and prostitute costumes were then inserted.
They were sentenced to probation, community service and fines. O’Keefe received the heaviest sentence, three years probation, 100 hours of community service and a $1,500 fine.
The FBI has said O’Keefe used his cell phone to try to capture video of two others who posed as telephone repairmen and asked to see the phones at Landrieu’s office. O’Keefe has said the group was trying to investigate complaints that constituents calling Landrieu’s office couldn’t get through to criticize the Democrat’s support of a health care reform bill.
O’Keefe, who apologized after his sentencing for raising security concerns at the federal building that houses Landrieu’s office, said he would continue his undercover work.
He is best known for posing as a pimp in a video that embarrassed the community organizing group ACORN.
New Orleans Adult Entertainment: " FBI: O’Keefe DID Plan a ‘Wiretap Plot’ to Secretly Record Employees of US …
May 31, 2010
But illegal or not, what is clear from today’s FBI announcement, is that O’Keefe did plan to secretly wiretap the conversations of federal officials, working for a U.S. Senator on federal property, as initially reported by a number of media outlets immediately after the arrests.
So will all of those “liberal media” outlets who were so quick to correct the record in regard to their accurately reported “plot to wiretap Democratic Sen. Mary Landrieu’s office” — the same outlets who have still not issued corrections for their inaccurate reports on O’Keefe’s ACORN scam, in which they erroneously reported that he dressed as, and/or represented himself as a pimp when meeting with ACORN employees (he never did) — now report that O’Keefe was, in fact, according to the FBI, attempting to wiretap conversations of federal employees in the office of a U.S. Senator?
Charges don’t curb activist
Despite legal consequences for his actions, he plans to continue work.
An activist who faced legal consequences for trying to sneak into a lawmaker’s office doesn’t appear to be letting up.
Ringleader James O’Keefe videotaped his coconspirators as they posed as repairmen and asked to see the phones in Sen. Mary Landrieu’s (D-La.) office last December. They were investigating whether the lawmaker was purposely ignoring constituents who called to oppose the health care plan.
O’Keefe expressed regret during a hearing Wednesday where he and the others pleaded guilty to misdemeanor charges, receiving probation and community service hours.
But then the 25-year-old better known for dressing up as a pimp in a video exposing ACORN announced a new venture.
O’Keefe said he would release the results of another such investigation very soon.
Greg Cote of the Miami Herald, under the headline “NFL Goes insane With Super Bowl in New Jersey,’’ grumbled “The League should be arrested for prostitution because, in effect, the NFL has broken its own rules on mild-climate cities to reward the Jets and Giants for building a $1.6 billion stadium.’’
Houston was rewarded with a Super Bowl for building a new stadium. Rules about mild-climate cities? Detroit has had two Super Bowls; Minnesota, the frozen north had one. Those games were indoors, but for that first time in Detroit, XVI, the winning 49ers had to stomp through snowdrifts just to get to the Pontiac Silverdome.
The owners, who voted for New York, merely were supporting the free-spending decision of their pals in charge of the Giants and Jets to erect a new facility.
That’s not prostitution. That’s billion-dollar back-scratching.
Political Fallout from the BP Oil Spill
Drill Baby… Drill?
By Nick HodgeThursday, May 27th, 2010
Michael Steele’s having a bad year.
The embattled Republican National Committee Chairman has had to battle opposition to his leadership within his own party, defend his organization’s $2,000 tab at a Hollywood strip club, and explain away his use of the term “honest injun” to Native American groups…
But when BP’s Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded in the Gulf of Mexico last month and began what’s now looking to be the worst environmental disaster in American history, Steele’s year got a whole lot worse.
That’s because Steele is the guy who’s forever immortalized on tape leading the 2008 Republican Convention crowd of over 20,000 in a resounding chant of “Drill Baby Drill!” — an image that clearly resounds from the last presidential race.
La. Guard troops moving to Baghdad
Associated Press – May 27, 2010 6:04 AM ET
NEW ORLEANS (AP) – Louisiana National Guard troops will provide security in the International Zone in Baghdad.
The Times-Picayune reported Wednesday that 1st Battalion, 141st Field Artillery Regiment, known as the Washington Artillery, has about 400 soldiers in Iraq. Based at Jackson Barracks in New Orleans, the unit has been providing convoy escort services from a base in southern Iraq.
The new assignment moves the unit north to Baghdad.
See the full article from “WXVT”
I can’t come up with a decent reason to want to be in East Rutherford under any circumstances — particularly with its unfortunate proximity to Jets fans — but the least of those circumstances would be in early February, when temperatures drop into the 20s and the wind bites and sleety, gray banks of sludge (far too ugly to be called snow) are likely to entomb the stadium.
The NFL, in Tuesday awarding Super Bowl XLVIII to the New Meadowlands Stadium, has for the first time bestowed its signature game to an open-air stadium in a harsh-winter city.
Competing bids from Miami and Tampa were denied. Yeah, why play the biggest of all games in fair weather? Makes too much sense.
The league should be arrested for prostitution, because, in effect, the NFL has broken its own rules on mild-climate Super Bowls to reward the Jets and Giants for building a $1.6 billion stadium.