SmokingGun wrote:Yeah.. the EU was a brilliant idea, everyone is so much better off now.

You're right, what a terrible idea the E.U. is!! Centuries of intra-continental warfare is far preferable.

Do you ever engage your brain before you open your mouth?

Holy fuck, a World Cup draw snatched with a goal in the last seconds of injury time... For a small country where soccer/football is not the biggest sport, that's our biggest ever result. The Austrialian quizmaster at the pub last night had a good announcement: "Congratulations to New Zealand f...

Turns out they could be banned! Both Messi and the French captain have said they can't even communicate with the other players due to the noise, and the major European TV networks have complained bitterly about them, so the South African organizers have said they might prohibit them inside the stadi...

Just because it started in the US doesn't mean it isn't an African tradition. Drinking tea is an English tradition. But tea was only first imported to England in the 1660's after Charles II married the Portuguese princess Catherine, who liked to drink tea. There was an article about it in the Germa...

Meh, it's like I said a long time ago - he's as dumb as the guy he replaced. Since the "corpse-men" fiasco, people are actually starting to notice. Awesome, we've got batshit crazy conspiracy theorist Juggernaut calling Harvard-educated Obama dumb. No one listened to you "a long time...

Funny thing about the Vuvuzelas is that Sepp Bladder refused to ban them because they're supposedly an "African tradition." In actual fact the Africans apparently got the idea from MLS, which has thankfully all but phased them out since the early years. Used to be the only kind of identifi...

This is pretty funny, if you haven't seen it yet:

http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/thu-j ... s--one-cup

Yanks can play their Baseball and their "football" but kicking a real football is still a mystery to them. They think football is for fags for crying out loud. How bad would it be if they would defeat us in our sport? I hope you understand the responsibility you're carrying here. We alrea...

I love how the media is trying to build hype for this in the USA, good for them...overall its on the fans radar just above the WNBA That's not true at all. MLS might be just a blip on the radar, but the national team gets good ratings during big tournaments. And 55,000 people attended the sendoff a...

No, BP has taken a fast and lose safety policy recently and it has come out in the wake of this accident. He is the CEO but he answers to the board. So it's quite feasible to me that if he sees the board intent on fast and massive profit-taking at the expense of safety, that he might decide to get ...

Why do you care what they do in Belgium? I hope you weren't one of the guys bitching about Paul McCartney's Dubya joke. What does Sir Paul's classy quip have to do with this? Righties love to bitch and whine when anyone else in the world comments on American politics, so I figured it's only fair th...

I'm really not big on conspiracy theories. Isn't it more likely that the simplest explanation is true... namely that he wanted to pay off the mortgage on his mansion, so he sold his stock to pay for it? If he knew Deepwater Horizon might explode, you'd think he would have spent some trying to preven...

Yeah, I assume it was a coincidence. You're saying he knew the oil rig was going to explode? That's preposterous.

Why do you care what they do in Belgium? I hope you weren't one of the guys bitching about Paul McCartney's Dubya joke.

YourMomma wrote:http://preview.bloomberg.com/news/2010- ... f-day.html

Game over.

Just remember it was your team that amassed most of it, okay?

Well i'm rooting for Mexico, but what the hell we all know they won't make it past the first round and if they do they'll most likely face Argentina and get eliminated :( You should see every Mexican i know lose their shit when you tell them they won't get past the first round.....then you should s...

being fairly "dumb" in all things soccer...how does the USA team stack up? do they have any shot in their group? The USA will draw against England in the opener 1-1 imo. They should qualify and makes a decent stab at the tournament. I can see the last 16 being a realistic target and depen...

No Charlie Davies on the USA initial roster. I was really hoping he'd come back after that horrific car crash. I was hoping for the sentimental favorite, Freddy Adu. I guess he just didn't have time to get back into form with Aris Saloniki. Shame... Freddy can do things that no other U.S. player ca...

Instead of actually disputing the facts, you resort to this. Lame. No, what's lame is that you are deliberately ignoring the reasons why the debt is spiraling out of control, 90 percent of which have nothing to do with Obama: The U.S. budget situation has deteriorated significantly since 2001, when...

Politics is a dirty business. Sure, it looks kinda shady that they tried to keep Sestak out of the race, but my understanding is that the White House promised Specter when he made the switch that they would try to keep the primary field clear for him. Remember this is back when they were gunning for...

Nevermind wrote:Obama debt increases $5 billion per day -- 3 times Bush rate

Yeah, the Bush recession is really kicking Obama's ass.

Do you ever do anything but troll Shagg? Once in a blue moon you post an actual honest-to-goodness opinion in a Stryper thread, but otherwise? Forget it.

God I hate Peggy Noonan. Fuck her.

No surprise Buttnoid thinks she's amazing.

VinnieKulick wrote:Why would I be down with a company passing it's expenses and failures onto tax payers?

I hope you're in favor of stronger regulation then, because deregulation invariably leads to bailouts!

but what makes me more angry is that our government is more concerned with appeasing a group than respecting fallen Americans and their families. After hours of contentious public comment, a New York City community board voted late Tuesday to support a plan to build a mosque and cultural center nea...

Holidays should be for the family. Dude's entitled to a day off. As long as he's not out playing golf and does spend it with his bro's, ho's and homies etc. Yeah, but when the holiday in question is Memorial Day it probably isn't too much to ask for the Commander In Chief to pay his respects in som...

JakeYonkel wrote:I think it's extremely disrespectful. A major slap in the face to dead soldiers, IMO.

I think the guy should be judged on whether he really does "support the troops", not by some token speech he gives somewhere.

Hmm... well he'll be speaking at a different cemetary instead. Unless he's going to be playing golf while Biden is at Arlington (which I guess is possible), I'm not sure if it's worth getting upset about.

JakeYonkel wrote:Thoughts?

Got a link? I looked in a few places and even Fox News doesn't seem to be sufficiently upset by this to write an article!

Thus far, history has been exceedingly kind to the legacy and memory of President Ronald Reagan. And you know it. Who is "history"? The guy was a shitty president, and you would know it if you'd look at his record: horrendous deficits that weren't brought back under control until Clinton,...

I was feeling partisan about Reagan a damn long time ago! In the annals of history, current feelings of partisanship are meaningless. I have a feeling the annals of history are going to be unkind to the guy who began the trend of massive deficits and financial deregulation, and presided over a shar...