Wednesday, June 23, 2010

WHAT A GAME!

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As the bad calls piled on the U.S. football team, they never gave up, never stopped believing in themselves, never stopped believing that t...
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Tuesday, June 22, 2010

Fade Away Time for the General as Rolling Stone Gathers no Moss

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The beltway types are all abuzz over the showdown between President Obama and General McChrystal tomorrow concerning statements attributed t...
Monday, June 21, 2010

The Cup Runneth Over

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French Team Storms the Bastille –- In the latest development in a week of Cup craziness, the French team refused to train (not itself out o...
Sunday, June 20, 2010

Shakedown and Shakeup!

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First, there was the White House “shakedown” of BP in the best Harry Truman tradition. And to alleviate this toxic British invasion of our ...
Friday, June 18, 2010

The Parochial School Boys Agree!

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At last there is something MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann and lunatic fringe wingnut Glenn Beck agree on: hatred of the World Cup, football specifi...
Thursday, June 17, 2010

GOP Stands for GULF OF (BRITISH) PETROLEUM

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JOE BARTON KNEELS BEFORE BP: It didn’t take long. The American people, and even some Republicans are appalled and ashamed at the spectacle o...
Wednesday, June 16, 2010

BP LAUNCHES NEW PR CAMPAIGN AFTER "APOLOGY" FAUX PAS

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BP Chairman of the Board Carl-Henric Svanberg caused a furor with his fake apology: “I hear comments sometimes that large oil companies are...

President's Arm-Twisting Gets Results for Gulf Residents

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Credit where credit is due. President Obama got a big win today and went a long way toward ameliorating the economic plight of the Gulf stat...

Talk About Condescending Arrogance, BP Chairman: "We Care About the Small People"

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Unbelievable, how tone-deaf this insulting foreign imperial bastard is! BP Chairman Carl Henric Svanberg said, on leaving the White House me...

Day 58: We Needed a Populist And got an Elitist

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President Obama’s first Oval Office address to the nation was disappointing on so many levels that one has to wonder, again, if he gets it a...
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Dedicated to Rachel Maddow and World Cup Neophytes (or Snobs) Everywhere

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On Monday’s show, Rachel introduced her World Cup segment: “So traditionally, America is less psyched than the rest of the planet about the...
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Sunday, June 13, 2010

Pic of the Day: After U.S. Game, Brits Finally Make Their Mark in South Africa

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England’s star forward Wayne Rooney (right) and teammate relieve themselves between rounds of golf after their disastrous World Cup 2010 deb...

Best World Cup Headline (So Far) As Brit Tabloids Feast Mercilessly on Goalkeeper: “HAND OF CLOD”

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This is a clever take on Dieguito Maradona’s hand ball goal which knocked England out of the 1986 World Cup and went viral throughout the w...
Saturday, June 12, 2010

Tea Farty Is a BLAST!

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The latest website to mock the Teabaggers’ HOT AIR, complete with orifice-appropriate sound effects is very, very funny … Here ‘tis “ retwee...
Friday, June 11, 2010

World Rivalries, Cultural Diversity, and USA v. England, a World Cup Match With a New Complexion

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Black. Paint it black. Black as night, black as coal. Black as oil . This will not be the first time that politics has intruded upon the wor...
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Wednesday, June 09, 2010

Chicago Blackhawks Hoist Stanley Cup: Congratulations!

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It's been a looong time coming ... so goes the song; not since 1961 have the Blackhawks won Hockey's most coveted trophy. It was a g...

Blanche Lincoln's Survival: A Harbinger of the One-Party State?

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Hardball’s Chris Matthews truculently declared it a “crushing defeat” for progressives. In an election fraught with Southern-style electione...
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Monday, June 07, 2010

DAY 49 - Outside the Box Solutions to Oil Disaster Cleanup: BP, Government MIA

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Rachel Maddow was on site in Louisiana Friday night, reporting on the utter devastation visited by BP on American shores and territorial wat...
Sunday, June 06, 2010

DAS CAPITAL - 21st Century BP-Style

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Lyapis Trubetskoy - Capital (with English subtitles) Lyapis Trubetskoy/Ляпис Трубецкой | MySpace Music Videos Lyapis Trubetskoy (Russian: Л...
Friday, June 04, 2010

Quotable: WMD in South Africa?

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“Technology is not everything. Scientists came up with the atom bomb; it doesn’t mean we should have invented it.” Marcus Hahnemann, reserve...
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