After Michigan bans smoking in restaurants and bars, Sen. Joe Hune fights to cut cigarette taxes
It may not be a popular fight in a state that just banned smoking in bars and restaurants, but Sen. Joe Hune (R-Hamburg) wants to lower cigarette taxes.
White House defends invite to rapper Common
The White House is standing by its decision to invite the rapper Common to participate in a poetry event despite conservative and other criticism that the musician has glorified the killing of police officers with his lyrics.
With poems, teens say goodbye to Cabrini
Every day at sundown, the gutted shell of the last Cabrini Green public housing tower takes on a ghostly aura as lights start flickering sporadically from 15 floors of empty rooms.
Witness: Co-defendant wielded machete in attack
A teenager who was in the room during a deadly home invasion acknowledged Wednesday that he wrote a poem saying he liked to cut up women with an ax but insisted it was two co-defendants, not him, who hacked the victims with a machete and knife.
Theodore Sorensen, top JFK aide, dies at 82
Theodore C. Sorensen, the studious, star-struck aide and alter ego to President John F. Kennedy whose crisp, poetic turns of phrase helped idealize and immortalize a tragically brief administration, died Sunday. He was 82.
Deep Thoughts by War Machine: Part 8
Please excuse me for slacking. War Machine put up his latest blog last week and I just saw it now! I guess this Gal can only stand so much awesomeness at once. I need a longer break in between War Machine’s prison blog sagas. This week, Mr. Machine thrills us with tales of body hair, masturbation (again), drugs, and Hepatitis C (my second favorite venereal disease). Does anyone else feel that War Machine may be breaking some prison “bro code” by talking about all the drugs that make their way into prison? Watch your ass, War Machine, and Godspeed.
3 months done! Doesn’t seem like I’ve been here that long. I hope the next months fly by in the same way! I finally got fed up with growing all this damn body hair and took advantage of the privacy of temporarily not having a celly, and I shaved. Man I feel better! I don’t know how other guys can stand that shit. They think it’s gross if a girl has a “bush” and yet they have pubes longer than their own dongs! LOL!
Anyway, still the same ole boring shit here… I think I’ve broken the world record for the amount of times someone has “spanked it” in one day many times over! LOL! I finally got on a steady workout regime. I was getting skinny & fat at the same time… UGH!
What else… man these guys here have all kinds of lil’ tricks! They’ve even developed ways so their friends can send them stuff in the mail. The jail checks all the mail we get too, but it still gets by! I don’t understand why anyone would want to be high on meth or heroine or whatever and be up for days on end in here with NOTHING to do, but plenty of them do it. It’d be easy to come to jail clean and leave a junkie. Glad I’m not one to fuck around with shit like that. It’s a huge business thogh. I hear stories of guys in prison literally getting RICH while serving life or long sentences from selling dope. Crazy.
And SO MANY of the guys here have Hepatitis C!! I don’t know how easy it is to catch but it makes me nervous being celled up with someone who has it!! That would end my fighting career! One more reason to avoid fighting in here though, last thing I want is that blood on me… ugh!
So a few of the cops that work here at the jail told me they were curious and “Googled” my name. They told me that they watched the surveillance footage of the fight that landed me here. Unanimously they agreed that it was bullshit! They told me they can’t believe I got charged and nobody else did. Furthermore, they said it was ridiculous that I received a felony as a result. I already knew this but it’s nice to have police officers share the opinion. At most, I should have gotten a misdemeanor battery, lame. Watch for yourself. YouTube search “War Machine Bar Brawl.”
Either way, I shouldn’t be out drinking and putting myself in situations where problems can occur, but I just hate the fact that I’m labeled as some arch criminal, bully, when it’s not the case. The bouncer I fought in Vegas was my co-worker and was 6’3″ 350 lbs. The fight I got into at the porn party was me vs. 7 guys and I was NEVER EVEN CHARGED because the cops/DA ruled it self-defense. Don’t believe the hype/media. As a professional, I’m always respectful in the cage and I put on entertaining fights. When I’m free again, I won’t put myself in shitty situations and these mishaps will be behind me.
Watch the UFC 120 Pre Fight Press Conference Here Today
All the performers on Saturday’s “UFC 120: Bisping vs. Akiyama” card were on the scene this morning, and you their pre-fight press remarks below. Live from the O2 Arena in London, England, UFC 120 features a middleweight clash between Michael Bisping and Yoshihiro Akiyama. The show will be available in the US via same-day tape-delay [...]
Frankie Edgar vs Gray Maynard II official for UFC 125 on Jan. 1 in Las Vegas
One final hurdle remains for Frankie Edgar if he hopes to silence the last of the doubters.
The reigning UFC Lightweight Champion will get his long overdue rematch with Gray Maynard, as the two 155-pound standouts hook ‘em up for a second time at UFC 125 from the MGM Grand Garden Arena on Jan. 1 in Las Vegas, Nevada, the promotion announced today.
And this time it’s for the title.
“The Answer” shocked the world (again) when he defeated BJ Penn for a second time this year at UFC 118 in the promotion’s Boston debut back in August. The Toms River native claimed “The Prodigy’s” belt when they first met at UFC 112 in Abu Dhabi last March.
Edgar holds but one loss on his stellar record, and it just so happens to be against his new challenger to the 155-pound throne, Gray Maynard.
“The Bully” earned his title shot on the same night Edgar dominated Penn in “Beantown,” claiming a convincing unanimous decision win over Kenny Florian.
Maynard to this day remains undefeated at 10-0. With a unanimous decision victory over the current champ at UFC Fight Night 13 back in 2008, one has to imagine that confidence is something that Maynard won’t be lacking come New Year’s Day.
But will it be enough to overcome Edgar 2.0?
UFC 125, recently announced via the website’s “Ultimate Insider,” will feature a super-sized showdown between Shane Carwin and Roy Nelson as both heavyweights try to get back into the 265-pound title hunt.
Chris Leben vs. Brian Stann and Thiago Silva vs. Brandon Vera are also expected to be announced for the Jan. 1 pay-per-view in the coming weeks.
Stay tuned to MMAmania.com for more updates to this still-developing fight card.
Random Awesome Highlight Video: Jean-Charles Skarbowski
You saw him on last night’s TUF. He was short, drunk, and not intimidating looking at all. And yet he was dropping GSP’s team members effortlessly. So, who is this guy that GSP brought in to help his team train? His name is Jean-Charles Skarbowski, and he is a Muay Thai fighter from France. Ok, you probably got that from the show. You also probably figured out that he’s BAD. And you are right. While there are several highlight videos featuring him floating around out there, this one seems to be the best. Oh yeah, and I gotta say, the Star Wars geek in me giggles over ‘Thai fighter’ every single time. Enjoy!
Jean-Charles Skarbowski Muay Thai Highlight (via Fightindextv)
