6166...Beckham To The NFL

It could happen if David Beckham wants it. 

The recently retired football player has been offered a shot at playing gridiron.  Make that was offered a shot at playing in the NFL.  “'A couple of scouts felt that David has the potential to become a kicker in the NFL team, and one actually put a call into him for a trial,' a source told the Mirror.



Hey, stranger things have happened.  One thing for sure, you bring David Beckham to camp and you won't have to worry about selling out your intra squad and pre season games.

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6155...No Napoleon Street

At least not a major one that I know of.

Pourquoi?  Coz on this day 198 years ago Wellington took Napoleon to school at Waterloo.



See ya, wouldn't want to be ya.

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6154...Canada Hits The Big Time

Again.

This time of course it is anti-corruption mayor Michael Applebaum of Montreal who has been charged with corruption.

Beeg story.  So big that Reuters is writing about it and Archie Bunker's fave paper The New York Daily News is among the rags running with the story.  They open with these bon mots:  "Montreal's new mayor, who pledged to stamp out corruption when he took office last November, was arrested and charged with fraud on Monday in another blow to the reputation of Canada's biggest cities."





Welcome to the big time.

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6155...Dean Del Mastro's Rules

Are, apparently, his own.  The MP from Peterborough is not so good at following the rules at work.  

Postmedia's Stephen Maher and Glen McGregor this aft are reporting that

A witness in an Elections Canada investigation has written to Prime Minister Stephen Harper and House of Commons Speaker Andrew Scheer complaining that Conservative MP Dean Del Mastro’s attacks on him appear to be designed to interfere with the investigation.
Last Thursday, Del Mastro, the parliamentary secretary to the prime minister, rose in the House on what’s called a “question of privilege” to complain that an investigation into his 2008 campaign financing was violating his rights as an MP.
Frank Hall, who ran Ottawa research company Holinshed Research, was named in a court order compelling him to release records to Elections Canada investigators who are looking into allegations Del Mastro’s campaign breached spending rules in the 2008 election.

Stay classy El Roundo.

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6154...Doug Ferrari's Show Biz Rules

THE SHOW BIZ RULES

1. You are not a failure until you quit. 
2. Better a has-been than a never-was. 
3. Always carry your wallet onstage. 
4. Never work with children or animals.
5. Remember no matter who you are you will never be considered a normal human. Boarding houses during vaudeville had signs: NO SHOW PEOPLE NO ANIMALS NO NEGROES And show people were always FIRST.
6. Forget respect from parents or family until you buy a house (rule Pre-2008).
7. Better your audience boo than yawn.
8. We are all circus people and we are all in the psych book somewh ere.

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6153...Death By Stiletto

Sounds like the title of a Mickey Spillane novel, doesn't it?

But it is real, so real and CNN affilate KTRK in Houston had the story last week.  44 year old Ana Lilia Trujillo stands accused of murdering University of Houston professor Alf Stefan Andersson with a stiletto.



When Houston's finest arrived the very, very, verrrry dead "...research professor from the University of Houston, had 10 puncture wounds on his head -- some as deep as an inch and a half -- and 15 to 20 puncture wounds along his face, arms, and neck..." which resulted in Ms. Trujillo being charged with murder "with a deadly weapon, namely a shoe".

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6152...Aislin Salutes Applebaum

And, presumably, all past and future mayors of Montreal.



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