The rantings of a sports fan and gadget junkie suffering from societal vertigo. Think of it as the space-age polymer of the blog world.
Here’s where she asks what the VP job is all about:
Sarah Palin – What does the VP do?
It’s a bit different from being Governor of a state of 670,000 people (roughly equivalent to the city of Memphis).
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It’s happening again
All of the models bar one have this thing cuting right through southern Louisiana. Sure they’ve made progress in fixing things up, but a Cat 4 Hurricane may undo it all in one night. 150+ mph winds sustained – gusts up to 200. So it’s pretty classless that a guy like Michael Moore, a clown with some film making talent and unfortunately a voice in politics, to go on TV and say something as callous as this:
“I was just thinking, this Gustav is proof that there is a God in heaven,” Moore said. “To just have it planned at the same time, that it would actually be on its way to New Orleans for Day One of the Republican convention, up in the Twin Cities, at the top of the Mississippi River.”
I mean, come on! You sit there and accuse Republicans of being out of touch with the common man and then you start cracking jokes on what a Hurricane will do to the GOP convention? When a bunch of people who just started putting their lives back together are faced with another life-changing event? What a tool this guy is – someone should send his ass to New Orleans and have him try to survive in the toxic water and inhumane post-storm conditions.
Keith Olbermann should bear some blame for not calling out Moore on this either. I understand being a left-wing pundit, but if you’re gonna call out Dubya and McCain you have to call out Moore too, or you’re no better than Hannity and O’Reilly.
Apparently some Democratic congressman was caught saying the same thing on a plane flight, but the quality of the youtube video seems a bit dubious.
but yeah … Michael Moore needs to take a long vacation to Kinshasa or Kamchatka or something and leave the idiotic political statements to Cindy McCain.
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Paul Scholes brought his volleyball game to a soccer match on Friday – trying to help Man United come back from a 2-1 deficit to Dick Advocaat’s Zenit St. Petersburg. His silly decision will now cost him a game suspension in the Champions League. Oooops.
As you can expect, his manager was completely livid at him blatantly violating a fundamental law of the game:
Manchester United crashed out of the Uefa Super Cup to an efficient display by Zenit St Petersburg. The Russian side had the better run of play in the first half and deserved their lead going into the break.
United worked harder in the second half, managed to claw back one goal, but a rush of blood and a hand of God saw Paul Scholes pick up a second caution as he punched the ball into the opposition net.
Sir Alex Ferguson spoke to ITV Sport as Zenit partied on the pitch: “We played our best football when we were two-nil down, it was a warm night, we had tired players, but both teams did well.”
Regarding Scholes’ dismissal, the United manager sympathised: “When someone gets sent off by punching the ball… it’s a bit unfortunate, it was an instinctive thing,” when it was brought to the Manchester United manager’s attention that the player would receive a European suspension valid for the Champions League, his face visibly dropped, but he added: “It happens.”
Singling out specific players for praise, Ferguson said: “I thought Tevez was outstanding, he was our best player.”
Did I say livid? I meant hypocritcally rationalizing. Good thing the referee wasn’t, though unless he was Howard Webb, any referee not seeing that blatant handball needs to have his eyes checked!
Here’s some wildcat video of the incident:
Hand of Scholes
Here’s a recap of the game:
Uefa Super Cup
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So says Jim Rome. Hilarious. Apparenlty, too, “Tony Romo the New Love of My Life”
And best of luck to you, Tony Now that shes confessed in the article to picking out your clothes, youre gonna need it.
She also wrote a song about him and said Tony played it in the locker room for his teammates.
No word on how long it took them to stop laughng.
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Thanks again to NBC for their tape delay strategy. They sat there on the set of the Today show, where all the news and even the cultural exchange pieces are more watered down than the soda at Magic Johnson’s theaters (allegedly), and talked about “tonight’s closing ceremonies” when they were either happening behind them at the time (8pm local time) or they had pre-taped the entire Today show. God help them if Joe Biden had punched Barack Obama in the mean time – their transitions to and from the news desk would have been way too cheery. Or maybe they taped a “sad” transition too.
Anyways … on to the show – almost a reverse of the Hong Kong handover!
Beckham sets ball rolling towards London 2012BEIJING, Aug 24 (Reuters) – China unveiled an extravagant farewell to the Olympics on Sunday and David Beckham, the world’s most famous soccer player, said hello by kicking a ball to start the countdown to London 2012.
The appearance of Beckham on top of a red double-decker bus that unfolded into a hedge-clipped silhouette of London sent 91,000 fans into a frenzy in the futuristic Bird’s Nest stadium.
A grinning Beckham kicked the ball off the top of the bus into the hands of a delighted Games volunteer.The London segment was woven into a spectacular closing ceremony that wrapped up a $43 billion Games designed to showcase China’s might, modernity and sporting prowess.
… as well as their authoritarian rule, communist culture of cheating, and their opposition to free press and protest.
A ring of fireworks exploded round the rim of the stadium. Two giant drums were hoisted into the sky with two pairs of suspended drummers thumping out a hypnotic beat.The stadium was turned into a kaleidscope of glittering colours with 200 acrobats taking giant leaps and somersaulting across a stage on spring-heeled stilts.
Launching a huge party to wrap up the greatest sporting show on earth, thousands of athletes poured in from all four corners of the stadium, blowing kisses and waving flags.
The towering figure of Chinese basketball player Yao Ming was seen grinning from ear to ear.
Beckham, brought up in east London, hailed Beijing’s success but told Reuters before the ceremony: “I’m sure we will be better than them, without a doubt.”
From what I understand, while the organization was crisp and the visuals were stunning (in some cases, unbelievable – literally), the place was dead. There was no party atmosphere that you might have found in Barcelona or Sydney. So in that respect, I’m sure the world’s new financial capital will excel. It’s hard to party with secret police everywhere and the threat of being sent for “re-education’ at a labor camp more apparent than the smog.
Britain’s eight-minute chance to tell the world what the London Games would offer the world in 2012 featured guitarist Jimmy Page, who launched into the riff from “Whole Lotta Love”.He was joined in the Led Zeppelin classic by TV talent show winner and chart-topping singer Leona Lewis.
Queen Elizabeth also sanctioned a choral version of “God Save The Queen” backed by lush string arrangements.
otherwise known to me using the lyrics of ol’ Samuel Francis Smith:
My country tis of thee,
Sweet land of liberty,
Of thee I sing.
Land where my fathers died!
Land of the Pilgrim’s pride!
From every mountain side,
Let freedom ring!
USA! USA! USA! … err … I mean … Come On, London!
Even though I was glad to see the Jamaican sprinters, our men’s and women’s basketball teams and our women’s soccer team (despite adversity) win gold , as well as Misty May (yum), I’m hope to never have watch another soccer game or basketball game on NBC. I mean, does it really hurt to have the score up in the corner all the time? That was 1997 technology, for pete’e sake!
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