Mobius Posted August 29, 2013 Share Posted August 29, 2013 Bushes recovering from operation and health problems.Late invites."One Republican aide likened the late flurry of invites to “unvitations,” the “Seinfeld”-inspired practice of inviting someone to an event with the knowledge that they won’t attend." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul in Qatar Posted August 30, 2013 Share Posted August 30, 2013 Really, who is saying that? I am not saying this is not true, but I hope it is not. Playing a game l ike that would simply be rude. But the Bushes both do get passes. They are not really available. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jabberwocky Posted August 30, 2013 Share Posted August 30, 2013 Just go here: http://www.rightwingwatch.org/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul in Qatar Posted August 30, 2013 Share Posted August 30, 2013 Bushes recovering from operation and health problems.Late invites."One Republican aide likened the late flurry of invites to “unvitations,” the “Seinfeld”-inspired practice of inviting someone to an event with the knowledge that they won’t attend." Here is a mainstream news story supporting your claim. There seems to be something to it. That is a shame. http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2013/08/gop-official-march-on-washington-organizers-ignored-suggestions/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mobius Posted August 30, 2013 Share Posted August 30, 2013 The next day O'Reilly did apologize getting the bulk of this wrong. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul in Qatar Posted August 30, 2013 Share Posted August 30, 2013 OK, nothing wrong with being wrong, if you admit it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FlyingCanOpener Posted June 26, 2014 Share Posted June 26, 2014 This is a terribly unfunny column that screams of laziness and/or deliberate ignorance. http://www.clarionledger.com/story/opinion/columnists/2014/06/25/coulter-growing-interest-soccer-sign-nations-moral-decay/11372137/ Coulter: Any growing interest in soccer a sign of nation's moral decay Ann Coulter, Syndicated columnist 4:37 p.m. CDT June 25, 2014 I've held off on writing about soccer for a decade — or about the length of the average soccer game — so as not to offend anyone. But enough is enough. Any growing interest in soccer can only be a sign of the nation's moral decay. • Individual achievement is not a big factor in soccer. In a real sport, players fumble passes, throw bricks and drop fly balls — all in front of a crowd. When baseball players strike out, they're standing alone at the plate. But there's also individual glory in home runs, touchdowns and slam-dunks. In soccer, the blame is dispersed and almost no one scores anyway. There are no heroes, no losers, no accountability, and no child's fragile self-esteem is bruised. There's a reason perpetually alarmed women are called "soccer moms," not "football moms." Do they even have MVPs in soccer? Everyone just runs up and down the field and, every once in a while, a ball accidentally goes in. That's when we're supposed to go wild. I'm already asleep. • Liberal moms like soccer because it's a sport in which athletic talent finds so little expression that girls can play with boys. No serious sport is co-ed, even at the kindergarten level. • No other "sport" ends in as many scoreless ties as soccer. This was an actual marquee sign by the freeway in Long Beach, California, about a World Cup game last week: "2nd period, 11 minutes left, score: 0:0." Two hours later, another World Cup game was on the same screen: "1st period, 8 minutes left, score: 0:0." If Michael Jackson had treated his chronic insomnia with a tape of Argentina vs. Brazil instead of Propofol, he'd still be alive, although bored. Even in football, by which I mean football, there are very few scoreless ties — and it's a lot harder to score when a half-dozen 300-pound bruisers are trying to crush you.• The prospect of either personal humiliation or major injury is required to count as a sport. Most sports are sublimated warfare. As Lady Thatcher reportedly said after Germany had beaten England in some major soccer game: Don't worry. After all, twice in this century we beat them at their national game. Baseball and basketball present a constant threat of personal disgrace. In hockey, there are three or four fights a game — and it's not a stroll on beach to be on ice with a puck flying around at 100 miles per hour. After a football game, ambulances carry off the wounded. After a soccer game, every player gets a ribbon and a juice box. • You can't use your hands in soccer. (Thus eliminating the danger of having to catch a fly ball.) What sets man apart from the lesser beasts, besides a soul, is that we have opposable thumbs. Our hands can hold things. Here's a great idea: Let's create a game where you're not allowed to use them! • I resent the force-fed aspect of soccer. The same people trying to push soccer on Americans are the ones demanding that we love HBO's "Girls," light-rail, Beyonce and Hillary Clinton. The number of New York Times articles claiming soccer is "catching on" is exceeded only by the ones pretending women's basketball is fascinating. I note that we don't have to be endlessly told how exciting football is. • It's foreign. In fact, that's the precise reason the Times is constantly hectoring Americans to love soccer. One group of sports fans with whom soccer is not "catching on" at all, is African-Americans. They remain distinctly unimpressed by the fact that the French like it. • Soccer is like the metric system, which liberals also adore because it's European. Naturally, the metric system emerged from the French Revolution, during the brief intervals when they weren't committing mass murder by guillotine. Despite being subjected to Chinese-style brainwashing in the public schools to use centimeters and Celsius, ask any American for the temperature, and he'll say something like "70 degrees." Ask how far Boston is from New York City, he'll say it's about 200 miles. Liberals get angry and tell us that the metric system is more "rational" than the measurements everyone understands. This is ridiculous. An inch is the width of a man's thumb, a foot the length of his foot, a yard the length of his belt. That's easy to visualize. How do you visualize 147.2 centimeters? • Soccer is not "catching on." Headlines this week proclaimed "Record U.S. ratings for World Cup," and we had to hear — again about the "growing popularity of soccer in the United States."The USA-Portugal game was the blockbuster match, garnering 18.2 million viewers on ESPN. This beat the second-most watched soccer game ever: The 1999 Women's World Cup final (USA vs. China) on ABC. (In soccer, the women's games are as thrilling as the men's.) Run-of-the-mill, regular-season Sunday Night Football games average more than 20 million viewers; NFL playoff games get 30 to 40 million viewers; and this year's Super Bowl had 111.5 million viewers.Remember when the media tried to foist British soccer star David Beckham and his permanently camera-ready wife on us a few years ago? Their arrival in America was heralded with 24-7 news coverage. That lasted about two days. Ratings tanked. No one cared. If more "Americans" are watching soccer today, it's only because of the demographic switch effected by Teddy Kennedy's 1965 immigration law. I promise you: No American whose great-grandfather was born here is watching soccer. One can only hope that, in addition to learning English, these new Americans will drop their soccer fetish with time. Ann Coulter is a syndicated columnist. Contact her through her website at www.anncoulter.com. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EchoFiveMike Posted June 26, 2014 Share Posted June 26, 2014 Seems accurate to me. Soccer is a girl's sport here. It's a track meet, with a ball. S/F...Ken M Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FlyingCanOpener Posted June 26, 2014 Share Posted June 26, 2014 Yeah, I forgot I had to put on my vagina before I got on the field when I played in high school. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sunday Posted June 26, 2014 Share Posted June 26, 2014 LOL, just LOL. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toysoldier Posted June 26, 2014 Share Posted June 26, 2014 That woman needs dick. Badly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rmgill Posted June 26, 2014 Share Posted June 26, 2014 (edited) She's right most of the time then the clock strikes 12 and she flings crap all over the room. Edited June 26, 2014 by rmgill Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soren Ras Posted June 26, 2014 Share Posted June 26, 2014 Overall a pretty weak entry by Coulter, I'd say. Still, I rather liked this part: I resent the force-fed aspect of soccer. The same people trying to push soccer on Americans are the ones demanding that we love HBO's "Girls," light-rail, Beyonce and Hillary Clinton. The number of New York Times articles claiming soccer is "catching on" is exceeded only by the ones pretending women's basketball is fascinating. I note that we don't have to be endlessly told how exciting football is. -- Soren Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sikkiyn Posted June 26, 2014 Share Posted June 26, 2014 That woman needs dick. Badly. NSFW But funny as hell https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ScEMlag8YBI Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stargrunt6 Posted June 26, 2014 Share Posted June 26, 2014 No soccer, no rugby. No rugby, no football. Sometimes, they aren't acting: I think Coulter may just be a caricature that plays her target audience very well: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mikel2 Posted June 26, 2014 Share Posted June 26, 2014 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EchoFiveMike Posted June 26, 2014 Share Posted June 26, 2014 To red-blooded heterosexual US men, USA soccer conjures one image: Oh, I forgot, maybe this one. Sorry, it's just what it is, lol. S/F....Ken M Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Garth Posted June 26, 2014 Share Posted June 26, 2014 Um, yeah, that's going to have repercussions. Lasting repercussions. Want to know how to make a Tea Party member mad enough that they'll actually vote for the Democrat in a race? That's it. Heard that the McDaniels campaign is finding substantive proof of voter fraud (Democrats who voted in their own primary, then crossed over to vote in the GOP runoff, which is a no-no), but the Cochrane campaign is telling MS county clerks to sit on the official results certification to deny McDaniels' supporters the chance to review them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mikel2 Posted June 27, 2014 Share Posted June 27, 2014 (edited) It only gets better http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Cpp6cYZrrcs Edited June 27, 2014 by Mikel2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeff Posted June 27, 2014 Share Posted June 27, 2014 Um, yeah, that's going to have repercussions. Lasting repercussions. Want to know how to make a Tea Party member mad enough that they'll actually vote for the Democrat in a race? That's it. Heard that the McDaniels campaign is finding substantive proof of voter fraud (Democrats who voted in their own primary, then crossed over to vote in the GOP runoff, which is a no-no), but the Cochrane campaign is telling MS county clerks to sit on the official results certification to deny McDaniels' supporters the chance to review them. Indeed, it proves the claim that the party establishment has more in common with liberal Democrats than with their own base. They may very well rue this day, we may all rue this day. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr King Posted June 28, 2014 Share Posted June 28, 2014 Um, yeah, that's going to have repercussions. Lasting repercussions. Want to know how to make a Tea Party member mad enough that they'll actually vote for the Democrat in a race? That's it. Heard that the McDaniels campaign is finding substantive proof of voter fraud (Democrats who voted in their own primary, then crossed over to vote in the GOP runoff, which is a no-no), but the Cochrane campaign is telling MS county clerks to sit on the official results certification to deny McDaniels' supporters the chance to review them. Indeed, it proves the claim that the party establishment has more in common with liberal Democrats than with their own base. They may very well rue this day, we may all rue this day. Imagine that it took standard democrat playbook tactics to bring democrats to the polls. And surprise surprise, there is a serious question if many of the votes were even legal. How utterly democrat. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stargrunt6 Posted June 28, 2014 Share Posted June 28, 2014 (edited) Ish gets real in Mississippi: Tea Party leader dies in apparent suicide. (not to make light of anything, but the man interviewed sounds like Shirley Q. Liquor, whose actor is from MS) Edited June 28, 2014 by MCab Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DKTanker Posted June 28, 2014 Share Posted June 28, 2014 To red-blooded heterosexual US men, USA soccer conjures one image: Oh, I forgot, maybe this one. Sorry, it's just what it is, lol. S/F....Ken MNot a single hanging nipple amongst them. sigh Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DKTanker Posted June 28, 2014 Share Posted June 28, 2014 Um, yeah, that's going to have repercussions. Lasting repercussions. Want to know how to make a Tea Party member mad enough that they'll actually vote for the Democrat in a race? That's it. Heard that the McDaniels campaign is finding substantive proof of voter fraud (Democrats who voted in their own primary, then crossed over to vote in the GOP runoff, which is a no-no), but the Cochrane campaign is telling MS county clerks to sit on the official results certification to deny McDaniels' supporters the chance to review them. Indeed, it proves the claim that the party establishment has more in common with liberal Democrats than with their own base. They may very well rue this day, we may all rue this day. I understand there is evidence that the eGOP (establishment GOP) commissioned both the flyers and the Robo Calls through organizations sympathetic to Democrats. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
m1a1mg Posted June 28, 2014 Share Posted June 28, 2014 Second highest participation level of any sport in the US, second to basketball, not football. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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