Been meaning to do weekend open thread posts, but it’s the weekend and I don’t like doing stuff. Still, I got one of them iPad things, and I thought I’d try out writing a blog post from it.
So… a discussion topic…
We lost to Ghana at soccer and have been humiliated on the world stage. Should we not care — as usual — or should we blame the failure of Obama’s leadership? Frankly, both teams should feel lucky they didn’t all drown in oil.
Nope! It’s gotta be Boooshes fault… Barry done broke out the blamethrower.
Well, this is soccer we’re talking about. Why should we care?
And the oil spill isn’t Obama’s fault.
…but the fact that he seems to want to prolong it is.
No, no.
Repeat after me: “Soccer? Who? Ghana? Well, how nice for them. I’m sure it’s just tooo cute”.
Change the subject and move along!
More soccer talk? Didn’t whatever that thing is end yet?
-Yea for weekend open threads!
-Blamethrower, well done Burt.
-I would go along with soccer talk easier if there were pictures of girls in soccer Jerseys and no actual talk about the sport.
-After all everything bad happens… as revenge for those dirty thoughts you had about your cousin.
-What doesn’t kill you will probably leave you paralyzed or maybe trapped in a semi-conscious coma.
-Conservatives want the old rules, Marxists want their rules, and libertarians want no rules. Note for Conservatives and Marxists their rules are more for you then for them.
-A good lesson for everyone to know… No matter who gets elected or what ideology is in control, You are on your own.
Obviously another of Obammao’s FAILURES. Blame it on TARP. If the team had been made up of 12 year old “soccer” players, we could have swept the field. But putting up a bunch of unemployed HOMELESS bums, well… Of course it does show that the American SPIRIT rules, having a bunch of out-of-work amateurs get to the round of 16 in a “game” that the rest of the world cares about, well. … And why doesn’t the rest of the world put up teams to compete in the WORLD SERIES? I know, most real Americans only care about FOOTBALL, but some people watch baseball, which is about as boring as soccer. And nobody except maybe AMERICAN SOMOA can put up a decent FOOTBALL team. I mean, can you imagine a FRENCH football team? gimme a break.
losing a soccer match to Ghana pales in comparison to having Obama as our President.
As always, this is another situation that could be easily remedied by nuking the moon. Who’s going to dare to beat a country that nukes the moon at ANY kind of sport, no matter how pointless, boring, or annoying?
As for a French football team… I just can’t comprehend the concept; what would we call their linebackers? Line-abandoners? It would just save time to put a white flag on all their jerseys.
So what we have learned is that your iPad is eeeeeeeeeeevil.
“…but it’s the weekend and I don’t like doing stuff.”
Sounds like you’re pregnant, Frank.
Personally, I’m just beat. Cut down, sawed into rounds, and stacked : 11 big trees today: 5 madrona, 1 maple, 4 pine, 1 cedar. Several were so large, my 20″ bar just barely did the job. Ok, maybe you’re thinking: “So, Jim, what do you want, a medal?” No, sleep! (Hey, I’m almost twice Frank’s age and not pregnant!)
“You asked how I know it’s happening now? Because the last official act of any government is to loot their own treasury.”
Glenn Beck, The Overton Window, Chapter 20
Well, maybe not the LAST act… more like the first.
Sorry, I couldn’t think of any way to tie this in to either soccer or iPads.
Enjoy your weekend, folks!
I think Fiftycal is on to something. I know that almost nobody but the feminized wussies of the last 30 years care about soccer but the rest of the world seems to. I guess getting into the final 16 is like some kind of life accomplishment somewhere, just not here.
We should pretend that we know something about soccer and act smug!
I don’t mean to correct your syntax, but this is not proper parallel construction since you seem to be talking about these as two separate concepts when in fact they are not.
Other countries please take note: you are not allowed to call your sport “football” unless it involves 300 pound linemen built like a refrigerator and requires more protective gear than a pair of boxer shorts.
I look at it as a pyrrhic victory for Ghana….they’re still in, so they still have to listen to vuvuzelas.
We could have gotten past Ghana but we weren’t going to beat the truly good teams. So I’m glad we lost; hopefully now the media can stfu about soccer for another four years.
42 days till football preseason starts.
We should really be paying attention, because this is how America will be humiliated on the world stage for the rest of her life if Zero accomplishes his goals. Still not interested in soccer.
It’s now been a week. The mockingbird still won’t leave my television antenna. He stops singing only to eat. He sings even in flight.
He was waiting for me when I got home from church.
MST3k quote of the day: “ARRRGH! Sixteen men on a dead Dodge Dart.”
President Ronald Reagan quote of the week: “Well, I can change that in a hurry!”
I would like to know, really, I’m curious. How is it that countries who can’t feed their people, can’t run a government, can function in a civilized fashion can send a soccer team to South Africa with all the funding that it entails? And why do we care? Seriously. They can’t be bothered to feed, cloth or immunize their children but they can and do spend millions of dollars flying their soccer teams all over the globe and pay them (by their economy), more money than some people we see their whole lives.
And then they wonder why no one takes them seriously. Genius.
RON PAUL!
For Liberty is a very professionally done documentory on the birth and growth of the Liberty movement and (not to be redundant) the Ron Paul campaign.
this is 2 hrs long but well worth watching:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BIcIkoOwp7s
[Does it give adequate explanation of you people’s lack of self awareness?]
Any sport in which we can be defeated by Ghana is stupid. Period.
@Marko: Dodge Darts can die? Say it ain’t so.
If you have a tv antenna you are required by law to own a Dodge Dart.
OT, but if you suffer heat exhaustion and dehydration before you die you will burn hotter and faster in hell. Even more so for ex KKK members.
Doh, I don’t actually use the antenna, I’m too lazy to remove it. However, my father owned two Plymouth Horizons.
Come to think of it, he owned a Dart too. A real car connoisseur is my father.
“We lost to Ghana at soccer and have been humiliated on the world stage. Should we not care — as usual”
That’s pretty much the way I look at it. Had we lost in football (our football) or baseball or hockey or war to Ghana I’d be concerned, but losing in sucker, er, I mean, soccer or playing the vuvuzela is no big deal. And Obama humiliates US on the world stage on a daily basis, you think we’d be used to it after a year and half of his, ahem, “administration.”