Showing posts with label World Cup. Show all posts
Showing posts with label World Cup. Show all posts
Sunday, July 19, 2026
Can the beautiful game survive Trumpian douchebaggery?
I'll be perfectly blunt. Personally, I don't get the allure of "the beautiful game." My late father and all three of my brothers can converse knowledgeably about who's who and what's what in the British Premier League and all the top Liga across Europa.They can spend an afternoon watching a 0-0 draw and act like they witnessed a great sporting event! As far as I'm concerned, normal fans in any other sport feel ripped off by a 0-0 tie.
Nevertheless, FIFA is in charge of the biggest televised sporting event in the world. Bigger than the World Series. Bigger than the Indy 500. Bigger than the Super Bowl! That's why I'm shocked that FIFA boss Johnny Infantino's impeccably-coiffed head has been permanently wedged between Mafia Don's butt-cheeks ever since he presented him with the "FIFA Peace Prize." First one ever! I mean lots of people have won Nobel Peace Prizes... ho hum... But Donny J won the FIRST EVER FIFA PEACE PRIZE!!!
The world has never seen anything like it!
I don't get it. In the big picture, Infantino is a big deal and Trump is... well, not doing all that great. Then again, that name rings a bell... Infantino. Wasn't there a New Jersey Mafia boss by that name back when Donny was building casinos in the Garden State?
Anyway, Spain won and the Argies didn't. The country that denied America its airspace for its criminal attack on Iran defeated the most obnoxious cheerleader for Israeli apartheid and its US-supported genocide.
Let's try to enjoy that, at least for one day.
Sunday, July 8, 2018
Good news Canada! We can work with...
...John Bolton!
Yup, Trump might be a lost cause, but John Bolton is a stand-up guy Canada can work with! That's according to Michael Byers in yesterday's Globe and Mail.
And why not? He's smart, organized, tenacious, ambitious, and has been relentlessly advocating for war on Iran ever since the Mullahs threw over the Shah's liberal democracy back in '79.
That's our kinda guy!
Elsewhere in the countdown to Trumpageddon, I see where The Guardian's bed-wetter-at-large Simon Tisdall has figured out that Trump is in Putin's pocket, and is bent on "undermining the post-Salisbury western consensus."
What?
That's a thing?... there's a post-Salisbury consensus?
I think the general consensus outside the big-media echo-chamber is that the entire Skripal charade was stage managed by British spook agencies in a lame attempt to throw shade on Putin's party at the World Cup, but whatever. As for the imminent demise of NATO, Uncle Sam's me-too club, that can't come soon enough for anyone pining for a more peaceful world.
And look on the bright side; it'll get those allies off the hook from buying all that over-priced American military hardware that's constantly being foisted on them in the name of "interoperability."
Like the F-35 that so many of the me-too imbeciles have signed up for.
Hard to see a downside. I guess the sparkly new $1.5 billion NATO HQ will be sitting vacant, but maybe Brussels can convert it to housing for some of those migrants who have been fleeing the NATO success stories in Libya and Afghanistan in their millions.
Finally, it looks like Trump's plan to make coal great again isn't going that great. Apparently there's a coal-fired generating plant closing every fifteen days on average since Putin put Trump in the Oval Office.
This too is a good thing!
Just goes to show you should judge politicians by their results, not by their rhetoric.
Yup, Trump might be a lost cause, but John Bolton is a stand-up guy Canada can work with! That's according to Michael Byers in yesterday's Globe and Mail.
And why not? He's smart, organized, tenacious, ambitious, and has been relentlessly advocating for war on Iran ever since the Mullahs threw over the Shah's liberal democracy back in '79.
That's our kinda guy!
Elsewhere in the countdown to Trumpageddon, I see where The Guardian's bed-wetter-at-large Simon Tisdall has figured out that Trump is in Putin's pocket, and is bent on "undermining the post-Salisbury western consensus."
What?
That's a thing?... there's a post-Salisbury consensus?
I think the general consensus outside the big-media echo-chamber is that the entire Skripal charade was stage managed by British spook agencies in a lame attempt to throw shade on Putin's party at the World Cup, but whatever. As for the imminent demise of NATO, Uncle Sam's me-too club, that can't come soon enough for anyone pining for a more peaceful world.
And look on the bright side; it'll get those allies off the hook from buying all that over-priced American military hardware that's constantly being foisted on them in the name of "interoperability."
Like the F-35 that so many of the me-too imbeciles have signed up for.
Hard to see a downside. I guess the sparkly new $1.5 billion NATO HQ will be sitting vacant, but maybe Brussels can convert it to housing for some of those migrants who have been fleeing the NATO success stories in Libya and Afghanistan in their millions.
Finally, it looks like Trump's plan to make coal great again isn't going that great. Apparently there's a coal-fired generating plant closing every fifteen days on average since Putin put Trump in the Oval Office.
This too is a good thing!
Just goes to show you should judge politicians by their results, not by their rhetoric.
Tuesday, July 8, 2014
How to make the entire world hate Germany
Germans are a smug and arrogant people.
By and large, we don't really like smug and arrogant people that much.
Mind you, we're likely to profess otherwise when they have their boot on our neck.
This football match in Brazil is beyond salvation. We're at 7-0 and we're not done yet.
Why?
Brazil is missing their top gun, which on no account would erase a 7 goal deficit, but which will be fodder for discussion for years.
Any reasonable team management would subtlety put out the go-slow signal after a 3-0 score.
7-0?
That smacks of Frau Merkel shoving more austerity up the Greeks after they're already down for the count.
Disgusting and unforgivable!
Move over Uncle Sam... there is a new bully on the world stage!
By and large, we don't really like smug and arrogant people that much.
Mind you, we're likely to profess otherwise when they have their boot on our neck.
This football match in Brazil is beyond salvation. We're at 7-0 and we're not done yet.
Why?
Brazil is missing their top gun, which on no account would erase a 7 goal deficit, but which will be fodder for discussion for years.
Any reasonable team management would subtlety put out the go-slow signal after a 3-0 score.
7-0?
That smacks of Frau Merkel shoving more austerity up the Greeks after they're already down for the count.
Disgusting and unforgivable!
Move over Uncle Sam... there is a new bully on the world stage!
Friday, July 4, 2014
Goodluck gives up on Boko Haram, goes after Super Eagles instead
Compared to Boko Haram, the Super Eagles were sitting ducks.
The Eagles fell in the round of 16 to France. All in all, not that bad a showing, but Goodluck needs some positives for the front pages and was hoping the national football team would provide it.
Hardluck Jonathan subsequently ordered the arrest of the team president on his return from the World Cup.
That got the attention of global football rulers FIFA, who promptly slapped down Noluck's extra-curricular judicial efforts.
Bear in mind that this is the same President who has retained a top Washington PR firm, to the tune of $100,000 per month, to polish his image going into the next election.
After this fiasco, those smart white folks at Levick are going to up that to $200,000 a month!
The Eagles fell in the round of 16 to France. All in all, not that bad a showing, but Goodluck needs some positives for the front pages and was hoping the national football team would provide it.
Hardluck Jonathan subsequently ordered the arrest of the team president on his return from the World Cup.
That got the attention of global football rulers FIFA, who promptly slapped down Noluck's extra-curricular judicial efforts.
Bear in mind that this is the same President who has retained a top Washington PR firm, to the tune of $100,000 per month, to polish his image going into the next election.
After this fiasco, those smart white folks at Levick are going to up that to $200,000 a month!
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