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Mexico gives us Affluenza Kid we give them Sean Penn, it would be a straight up deal, no cash, no future draft choices, clean and simple.
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I really don’t know what the big deal. In fact, it may be the reason they were able to find El Chapo. Who knows. I like Sean Penn. He may be controversial but he has done a lot of good philanthropic things. He was in New Orleans helping to save poor folks when no one else was.
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“He’s unimpressed with its financial yield.”
Ha! Doesn’t relish the thought of blowing MCA execs, do he?
What a weird story. Recently I watched a Sean Penn movie from a couple years ago where he played some sort of government assassin who gets out following a botched job overseas and starts building wells in poor countries. His past catches up with him, of course, and he becomes a well-building Jason Bourne. It wasn’t a good movie, but is interesting because I think that’s who Penn wants to be now – a world traveller with special skills who finds himself in dangerous situations. I guess it’s kind of interesting that he got this interview, but the article was 90% about everything that Penn experienced in getting the story. It’s weird.
I bought a cheap junk scifi paperback years ago (early 80s) in an airport that I read on a flight. The then absurd premise has stuck in my head and becomes less absurd with every passing year. Celebrity news couples for full surround, full sensory newscasts no longer report the news in a silly or serious manner but now have sex while lying in front of the news, be it erupting volcano or political convention.
Naked News webcasts of a few years past were dull, they should have gone into the field…
“I don’t always do journalism, but when I do I choose to make deadly enemies with dangerous drug lords.”
Speaking on CNN’s “State of the Union,” [White House Chief of Staff Denis] McDonough called the remarks “maddening.”
“We see a heroin epidemic, opioid addiction epidemic in this country,” he said.
He later went on to omit the known cause of the addiction epidemic, never mentioning Purdue Pharma, makers of pain medicines such as hydromorphone, oxycodone, fentanyl, codeine, hydrocodone, MS Contin, OxyContin, and Ryzolt, nor did he mention the company’s $634 million fine for promoting its drugs for so-called “off label” uses.
Because … El Chapo.
Sean Penn has done more good in the world than 98% of the members of Congress. Exchanging them for the Affluenza punk would surely make for a much, much better trade.
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