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Wednesday, July 02, 2008
He's got balls...
... and he knows how to use them.This French prankster has the skill and balls to pull off some amazing stunts. I'm not convinced this video isn't a product of clever digital work, but still, it's pretty funny:
See more funny videos at CollegeHumor
And consider this guy's pedigree:
[Remi Gaillard] possesses a penchant for showing up at sporting events dressed as one of the players and making his way on to the field... His most notorious fake-job has to be seen to be believed: wearing a full Lorient kit he snuck in amongst the team's players as they won the 2002 Coupe de France and went as far as shaking hands with president Jacque Chirac, ran victory laps with cup-holding Lorient players, giving TV interviews, and signing autographs. This Frenchie has balls of steel.
Saturday, June 28, 2008
That darned Darwin
By VictorM:Just as Bobby Jindal, the Republican governor of Louisiana, signed into law a bill that critics say is a Trojan horse to allow teaching creationism in science classes, there's an article in National Geographic that provides yet more evidence that Darwin's Evolution is a fact:
The latest portrait to emerge, from an especially well-preserved find, reveals an animal with a part-fish, part-tetrapod skull and a full-fledged tetrapod body... [that] in many ways fulfills scientists' expectations of what an early water-land transition animal should look likeIt's amazing to me how many people still cling to what is essentially a fairy-tale story over solid science.
Friday, June 27, 2008
Soccer: With friends like this...
By VictorM:Sometimes, I swear, the worst enemies of soccer in the USA are the same people that are trying to make it succeed. Take for example the game this Sunday between DC United and the LA Galaxy.
On one hand, we have David Beckham, Marcelo Gallardo, Landon Donovan, an expected near-capacity crowd at RFK stadium, a nationally televised game on ABC as the warm up to the Euro-2008 final, and... well, this is hard to believe but the game will be played at noon. That's right! In the summer time, in the northeast, at freaking burning as hell noon!
As Marcelo Gallardo was quoted saying:
I don't think that is an ideal time for a game for athletes to play. It is going to be so hot and humid. I just think it is sort of a contradiction because you are trying to bring in so many people but then it is not going to be the best show when the sun is at its highest. It is going to be very hard."Not an ideal time? No kidding! I'm sweating just thinking about it.
More opium for everyone
By VictorM:I can imagine that somehow the Bush administration and their legion of right wing sycophants will find a way to spin this Afghan opium story as, well, progress:
Afghan opium poppy cultivation grew 17 percent last year, continuing a six-year expansion of the country's drug trade and increasing its share of global opium production to more than 92 percent, according to the 2008 World Drug ReportOpium... mmmm... good, huh?
Thursday, June 26, 2008
War crimes
By VictorM:Come on, General, tell us something we don't already know:
Retired Major General Antonio Taguba, the Army general who first investigated the abuse at Abu Ghraib, has accused the Bush administration of committing war crimes. "The commander in chief and those under him authorized a systematic regime of torture," Taguba said.The problem is that Democrats don't have the stomach to shove this information down the American people's throats.
Monday, June 23, 2008
Carlin, dead
By VictorM:George Carlin is dead at age 71. This comment summarizes well my impressions of the great comedian:
If the role of religion, sex, and politics in the United States were a sleeping bear, Carlin thought it best to poke that bear with a stick. “I think it is the duty of the comedian to find out where the line is drawn and cross it deliberately,” Carlin would say.
Fifty states
By VictorM:My main reason for supporting Barack Obama over Hillary Clinton is seemingly coming to fruition:
Senator Barack Obama is drawing up plans for extensive advertising and voter-turnout drives across the nation, hoping to capitalize on his expected fund-raising advantage over Senator John McCain to force Republicans to compete in states they have not had to defend in decades.The Democratic party shouldn't be conceding any state to Republicans. Sure, many states are out of reach now, but several are only so because Democrats have not allocated the resouces it takes to start turning things around. Mister Obama's strategy is a step in the right direction.
Saturday, June 21, 2008
Bend it like you-know-who
By VictorM:I have often argued that soccer won't make it as one of the major sports in this country until it becomes part of the culture and it seeps into every day language, the way phrases like "Monday morning quarterback", "three strikes and you're out", "right off the bat", etc. have. While soccer has a long way to go, we have seen the beginnings of such an impact with the expression "soccer mom." There is another term that seems to have been creeping its way into American lexicon. Here's an example of it from a front pager at DailyKos, referring to Barack Obama saying one thing about the FISA bill but doing another:
so kudos for bending the language like Beckham, but that's not really what most people would consider that phrase to meanBend it like Beckham. It's here to stay... for a while, anyway.
Obama and FISA
By VictorM:Oh boy, someone is pissed at Barack Obama for his vote on the FISA bill... or is just too in love with the best senator in the land to give Barack some slack and recognize that when you're running for president you can't always do the right thing. And why not? Cause if you always do the right thing you stay at home in Wisconsin eating cheese.
Friday, June 20, 2008
9/10
By VictorM:The Republican party is pushing the "Obama has a 9/10 mentality." Obama's response offers nothing new but it doesn't have to -- it just has to be repeated over and over because it's the truth:
The people who were responsible for murdering 3,000 Americans on 9/11 have not been brought to justice. They are Osama bin Laden, al Qaeda and their sponsors -- the Taliban. They were in Afghanistan. And yet George Bush and John McCain decided in 2002 that we should take our eye off of Afghanistan so that we could invade and occupy a country that had absolutely nothing to do with 9/11.Obama won't say this but I'll add that the people with a 9/10 mentality are the people who were asleep at the wheel for the many months that preceded the 9/11 attacks -- George Bush and his Republican administration.
Thursday, June 19, 2008
Stupid Democrat
By VictorM:A few days ago Fred Hobbs, a Democrat from Tennessee, said that Barack Obama may be "terrorist-connected." Since then he has apologized but his excuse makes him sound even worse:
In perhaps the mother of all understatements, Hobbs added that his comments were caused by "what I had seen reported on Fox News, but I should have taken some time to check the accuracy of what I saw on television before speaking publicly."
Please, dude, switch parties.
Wednesday, June 18, 2008
Housing Market: Pointing the finger
By VictorM:The house market in the USA is a mess. Maybe the actual causes of this situation are a bit too hard to understand, but we know clearly who the real culprits are. And it's not just George Bush that gets the blame; the whole conservative agenda is primarily responsible for this situation:
Conservative policymakers created the conditions that resulted in America's housing debacle. To increase profits, finance companies sold subprime and nontraditional mortgages to millions of Americans who—the companies knew—could not afford to make the payments. The Bush Administration and the Federal Reserve shirked their responsibility to stop these reckless lending practices.To better understand the issue and the argument for pointing the finger at conservatism, click here.
Monday, June 16, 2008
Figure of eight
By VictorM:Remember back in 2004 how some in the left blogsphere went nuts with accusations that George Bush was wired during one of the debates with John Kerry?
Why do I bring this up now? Well, for 2 reasons.
One reason is that this weekend I decided to try riding a scooter and wound up crashing against a stone wall and breaking my collarbone. Right now I'm wearing this figure of eight harness strapped around my shoulders and back. As I was looking in the mirror, my back looked awfully similar to all those pictures of George Bush "wired". Did the nutty left ever consider that George Bush could have been using some contraption for medical reasons? Nah, not really.
The second reason I bring this up is to remind everyone to be a little more skeptical about such fanatical observations this time around, whether those charges come from the nutty right or the nutty left. We all know John McCain is a rabid, raving lunatic who'll get us into lots of wars and Obama is a friend of terrorists. We don't need any made up accusations to muddy the waters.
