Archive of entries posted on 14th June 2010

Fred Thompson on Soccer

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If you think Frank has a low opinion of professional soccer [apologies for the preceding oxymoron], you should hear what Fred had to say about it.

My favorite line, which starts around the 4 minute mark:

“The part that bothers me the most, I think, deep down inside, is it places the most value on these little guys who are so agile and quick and could do a pirouette on the tip of a steak knife with that ball – which is very cute, and very entertaining, kinda like a juggler at a circus. But, I mean, is this a sport for grown men?”

Your Next Haircut

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Will be at Burd’s Barber Shop in Franklin, North Carolina:

Thanks to IMAO Reader Jon for passing this along. He also adds this note:

He has a sign on his wall that says: “My bookkeeper’s name is Helen Waite. If you need credit, go to Helen Waite.” BTW, there’s no back door. We lure the hippies back there and punch them in the face three ways: hard, fast, and continuously.

Finally

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Soccer Officially Announces It Is Gay

Question of the Day

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So who should go in Helen Thomas’s empty seat in the front row of the White House Press Corps? My vote, as always, is for Mr. T. I think he’ll get along well with Gibbs since Mr. T pities the fool, but at the same time he won’t put up with any jibber-jabber.

So who do you think should take the seat?

Which Party Are the Racists?

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So Southern Republicans are supposed to be a bunch of ignorant racists (like Jackie Knotts), yet it’s looking like soon the South could be having two Republican Indian-American governors. How many Indian-American governors do the Democrats have? None. Is that because Democrats hate people from India?

Probably.

Well, not hate, but more like they’re too racist to elect them. Tunku Varadarajan lays it out pretty well: A good explanation for Indian-Americans doing well in the Republican Party and the Democrat Party is that Republicans don’t vote on race and Democrats do. Despite all the talk about racist Republicans, people like Jackie Knotts are fringe and it doesn’t matter what race you are to conservatives as long as you share their values. So any race can win with them. With Democrats, race is all important. So, since there aren’t large groups of Indian-Americans to vote along racial lines within the Democrat Party, Indian-Americans don’t stand a chance there.

So what’s your opinion: Is it you or the other guys who are racist? I vote that it’s the other guys. I know I’m not racist. When my daughter is born, I’ll love her no matter what race she is.

Desperation

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The point of these videos is to get the politician to say something controversial, and in that these kids failed:


(hat tip Hot Air which has more details)

Little odd. I mean, I’d get violent if someone accused me of supporting the Obama agenda, but it seems a bit out of place with a Democrat Representative. Plus, I think Etheridge would come off as more impressive if he used a Batman voice. “WHO ARE YOU?!!!”

Anyway, if a Democrat has touched you inappropriately, make sure to tell an adult.

And have you seen Harry Reid’s new campaign slogan: “No one can do better.” Isn’t that depressing if true?

“Your Senator is a cranky, doddering old man, and it only goes downhill from there.” Maybe the new Democrat strategy is to assault and depress everyone into submission.

Random Thoughts

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So when was the last time the NAACP found something more racially offensive than their own organization’s name?

What gets me is there are so many better things to watch on TV than the World Cup if you want to watch people not kick soccer goals.

I’m forced to use divide and multiply to shift bits in visual basic. That’s like using a car as a wheelbarrow.

Commenter on Obama: “He’s the black Justin Bieber…and just as tough.”

What’s that weird buzzing sound during the game? Did someone decide soccer wasn’t quite annoying enough already?

Before, I made fun of soccer fans. Now with these noisemakers, I want them all dead.

Let’s not host the World Cup again. I don’t want these people and their noisemakers in our country.

I tried to give soccer another chance, but just a couple minutes of watching and I’m enraged the sport exists.

Couldn’t they change the rules to soccer so there’s more scoring. Would that be so bad?

Couldn’t they have death squads roaming the stands killing anyone with those noisemakers. Would that be so bad?

Maybe for the next soccer game, the announcers could have an alarm clock going off in the background with no one turning it off.

If I set a howler monkey on fire, it would sound 10 times less annoying than the World Cup and be 100 time more interesting.

Do only Jedi have lightsabers, because it seems like it would be useful to anyone who does lots of yard work.

They should have a True Blood/Jersey Shore crossover. “Snook-eh!”

Flag Day … and then some

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On June 14, 1777, the Second Continental Congress adopted the United States flag. We now know this day as Flag Day.

Our country’s flag has flown proudly since Revolutionary War. During this country’s expansion across the continent, the flag flew. As the nation was torn apart by a civil war less than 90 years after its founding, the flag flew. During this country’s defense of liberty in the two world wars, the flag flew. When man broke free of the earth and landed on the moon, the flag flew. When the rebuilding began after Islamic terrorists attacked this nation, the flag flew. When the people of Iraq were released from over 20 years of Saddam Hussein’s oppression, the flag flew. And, despite those without our own country that seek to bring this country down, the flag still flies.

Traditionally, the president issues a proclamation observing Flag Day, although the current occupant of the White House hasn’t seen fit to do that this year; the last Flag Day proclamation on the White House’s Website is from 2008.

Despite the lack of recognition by the White House, we’re encouraging you to show proper respect and allegiance to the flag of the United States, in accordance with the proper rules of etiquette.

The flag represents this great nation. Fly it proudly.

Oh, yes, one other thing. Two years before the flag was adopted, the Continental Army, forerunner of today’s United States Army, was formed. That means today is the 235th birthday of the Army. If you see a soldier today, thank him. If you know a former soldier, thank him, too. I know he’d appreciate it.