No matter how bad your week is starting, at least it did not begin with an own goal.
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No matter how bad your week is starting, at least it did not begin with an own goal.
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Comrade Jake
Did you hear Green tried to kill himself? He stepped right out in front of traffic.
It’s the damnedest thing though – the bus went right under his arms.
JenJen
Haaaa!! Good one, Cole! You just made me spit up my coffee… and Danish!
(ba-dum chhhhh)
dmsilev
@Comrade Jake: Thankfully, we can recycle all those Bill Buckner jokes from the 1986 World Series.
dms, still bitter about a ruined childhood…
LarsThorwald
Yayy! They discovered $1 trillion worth of minerals and gold and lithium in Afghanistan! That should take care of all Afghanistan’s problems! It’s like winning the lottery!
Oh, fuck. It’s like winning the lottery.
Comrade Jake
@dmsilev:
I still wake up in the middle of the night with cold sweats.
LGRooney
I didn’t see the play, only read it on the Guardian stream so I am short details. In any event, it has always baffled me how often defenders head out of the box straight up the field. As a striker, I always liked it because I like to see goals. For midfielders and central defenders, who play up, it’s a dream. The ball very often falls in perfect volley area when it doesn’t happen as it did here (or drops at my poaching feet).
General Egali Tarian Stuck
@dmsilev: I gave thanks I wasn’t a Red Sox fan, nor Bill Buckner. Though I hated the Mets with a passion, and that made it bad enough.
R-Jud
My Monday began with slaughter. Came down at 3 am to get a drink, turned on the lights in the kitchen, and found 14 slugs, each about 3 inches long, on my floor and cabinets and worktop. There were more in the dining room, but by that point I’d stopped counting and started salting.
LGRooney
@R-Jud: Time to move the kitchen indoors or learn how to pinch yourself.
Paul in KY
I don’t know if it is happening to anyone else, but when I get on site & page back a couple of times, the words start to go waaaaaaay out to the right side of the page, overwriting ads, etc. It then stays that way.
I refresh screen, but nothing changes. Cannot read stories this way.
Is it something I’m doing wrong? Any ideas, Juicers?
Random Request
Someone please tell TPM to stop the front-page Alvin Greene coverage. It’s not that slow a news week.
Morbo
Well, that should make Poulsen feel better.
dmsilev
@Comrade Jake: 2004 cured me of that, thankfully.
Of course, by that point I had been living in Chicago for over a year, and hence had lived through The Steve Bartman Incident. Ever seen half of an entire city fold up on itself and start weeping?
dms
JGabriel
This is rich: an op-ed in today’s Times advises the Obama administration to be less partisan and more ethical in its political dealings. It’s written by Richard Painter, chief White House ethics lawyer for the Bush administration from 2005 to 2007.
I’m guessing that was a part time job.
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frankdawg
@LarsThorwald:
So now Afghanistan will pay for itself ?!?! ;)
@JGabriel:
I’m stunned to hear they had one – sounds like the dream job, money, prestige & no work.
Toothpaste for dinner is not political but is occasionally funny – I thought todays cartoon could start a good open thread fight though:
http://www.toothpastefordinner.com/061410/my-daughters-a-libertarian.gif
Eric S.
@dmsilev: Yes. It was lovely.
Eric S. – Cardinals fan living 3 blocks from Wrigley Field.
Rosalita
@R-Jud:
good god! don’t you have screens/doors? I think that trumps the palmetto bugs scurrying when you turn on the light in Florida..
fucen tarmal
@LarsThorwald:
i think, when you get down to the part about the 6th wife, it tells of a life that was jolly well rogered before he had money. not saying the comparison to afghanistan is any less apt, just sayin….
burnspbesq
Dutch got the points, but they weren’t all that impressive.
Brandon
I was under the impression, according to our media, wingers, teabaggers and firebaggers, that Obama scored an Own Goal everyday. And if not Obama, then Bo. I guess Green and Poulsen now know what it feels like to spend a day in our Kenyan Maoist Ursurper’s shoes.
Obama’s failure today? Demonstrating how much he hates the Jews by letting them do their own “independent” investigation. If Obama wasn’t hostile to the interests of Israel, he would have vetoed that decision of the Knesset.
arguingwithsignposts
@LarsThorwald:
@fucen tarmal:
This American Life had a segment a while back about lottery winners and the pain that can come with sudden wealth. Here’s the episode synopsis.
I don’t know what to make of the Afghanistan mineral “find,” except that it likely means our troops will be there for a loooong time to come. sigh.
cmorenc
The
CopenhagenDanish national team badly needs a differentcoachphilosopher-mascot: than Soren “fear and trembling” Kierkegaard. The Dutch simply played more inspired, creative futbol in the second half.More seriously, the Danish coach looked eerily like Andy Warhol, didn’t he? He might well be a splendid coach, but the Danish coach doesn’t look like Rembrandt, does he?
Harry Kawasaki
@Random Request: No shit.
As far as Afghanistan “winning” the mineral deposit lottery, and remembering previous post about coal trucks in southern WV, I wish I could get my hands on one of those rigs Google used to create Street View and drive around for day and make a doc showing what it’s like.
But hopefully Afghanistan can get themselves a Ghandi or Mother Jones who will try to prevent some company from doing to it what Anglo-Persian did to Iran.
cmorenc
If I won the lottery, I’d have the stones to firmly tell people I didn’t want to give money to to bugger off – relatives, friends, strangers, charities that aren’t on my priority list. I’ve refereed soccer for years, and so I’m used to being resolutely firm with disappointed, angry people.
Doesn’t mean I’d be all selfish-and-stingy; it simply means that who and for what I spent any of it would be my ideas, not someone else’s. I probably wouldn’t change all that much about my present lifestyle except for more travel to interesting places. I could purchase every adult toy on my wildest wish-list for under $50,000, and probably only half that. The money would represent security for me, not bling, flash, and unwanted imposition.
dmsilev
@Eric S.: Well, I live on the South Side, so per long-standing city ordinances, I was required to be snidely gleeful at the event. I had only been living here for a few months by that point, so found it a bit difficult to experience the proper schadenfreude.
dms
Bostondreams
So, apparently in Arizona now, they have decided that the 14th Amendment is passe, and are going to make it illegal to provide a birth certificate to children born in the United States who are not the offspring of legal residents.
Arizona: We Know Its Unconstitutional, But We Don’t Care
Face
@Bostondreams: It’s only unconstitutional until Strict Constitutionalists(TM) like Scalia and Thomas invent a reason that it’s not.
Bostondreams
@Face:
I get the snark, but in all seriousness, I do not see how this bill could be written in any way that is NOT unconstitutional. I mean, the Amendment says specifically “All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.”
The bill they want to pass would make it almost impossible for these new citizens to get the papers they need to prove their citizenship.
Face
@Bostondreams: You’re trying too hard to apply logic, reason, and facts to a political party that categorically denies evolution, climate change, and birth certificates.
The Constitution is only what 4 hard-core zealots and 1 sometimes-moderate Republican in the SC say it is. Always remember that.
General Egali Tarian Stuck
@Bostondreams: They are doing what the anti abortionists have done for decades, which is push the envelope by passing laws dubious at best, if not outright unconstitutional. This is for several reasons, first to keep their ideology of nativism under the national spotlight and that state legs, or the peoples reps don’t like said const. provision, by forcing lawsuits from the gov and others to challenge it as unconstitutional, and secondly, it is part and parcel of the two part long legal culture war, first to pack the federal courts with RW ideologues, most importantly the SCOTUS to do what we have seen with Roe V Wade — to chip away around the edges of said law or precedental legal decision and getting “conditions” made by the SCOTUS favorable to their side. The problem they have is unlike Roe, the citizenship criteria is clearly written into the constitution, whereas a right to abortion is not. But the mindset and goal is the same.
Scuffletuffle
@R-Jud: Jesus, what kind of drink?
Bill H
I guess it could be argued that illegal aliens are not “subject to the jurisdiction” of the US, other than to be thrown out of it. No, I’m not making that argument, I’m just offering it as fodder for trolls.
Ed Drone
@LGRooney:
Well, in this case, he’d have been better off heading it back upfield. He tried to head it to the left side, he being near the right post and the cross coming from the left, but his header caromed off a team-mate’s shoulder or back and went into the left corner of the goal. No team-mate, no goal; head it upfield, no goal; but head it to the side with team-mate in the area = goal.
Sometimes it don’t pay to get out of bed.
Ed
Ed Drone
@Bill H:
However, if the state has “no jurisdiction,” how can someone be “thrown out of it” by said state? Sounds like “jurisdiction” to me. The law is as clearly unConstitutional as could be.
Ed
LarsThorwald
@arguingwithsignposts: I heard that one a couple of weeks ago, about the guy who sold lump sum packages. That was a great, and sad, show.
Munira
@Paul in KY:
That happens to me, but only when I use Internet Explorer.
Paul in KY
@Munira: Thx Munira, it stopped doing it about 10 mins after I posted that, LOL. hasn’t done it anymore today (crosses fingers).
fucen tarmal
@arguingwithsignposts:
that is why, you have to fully embrace the idea that the money would change your life, realize that you have to become a prick, in self defense, and learn to resent people who wouldn’t be coming around before you had the cash.
as to the “own goal” i’ve started and ended many a day much less week with an “own goal”
fucen tarmal
@cmorenc:
50 k in adult toys? the mind boggles.
YellowJournalism
@arguingwithsignposts:
He won $27 million and lost 26 pounds? Lucky bastard.
Too bad about the marriage thing, though.
YellowJournalism
@fucen tarmal: I really, really have to remind myself not to eat lunch while reading BJ. I either end up totally grossed out by something or start laughing so hard I snort something up my nose. (Rice in your nostrils is not fun, people.)
In the case of your post, it was both. That was quite a feat.
burnspbesq
@fucen tarmal:
“50 k in adult toys? the mind boggles.”
50k ain’t nothin. It’s possible to spend well over $200K on a car.
burnspbesq
DeRossi is fortunate not to have been booked for that blatant dive.
2liberal
http://www.patriotsplanet.com/BB/showthread.php?t=56749
you can see teh video as a looping GIF in this thread, post #14
burnspbesq
Paraguay leads 1-0.
R-Jud
@Rosalita: I’m pretty sure the slugs got in through the cat door. It opens onto the garden.
asiangrrlMN
@burnspbesq: Yes, but adult toys (at least as I initially interpreted the statement) are not that expensive.
The problem is, you may not change when you win that kind of money, but the people around you sure will. And, it’s not just having the fortitude to tell people no, it’s…well, that one guy’s brother hired someone to murder him and his wife (yes, sixth, but that’s besides my point). You are required to tell the lottery your name in order to get the money, which means everyone knows who you are. Unfortunately, most Americans aren’t very good at saving money (duh), so having that much money is like free crack to someone who’s addicted.
Personally, I would give much of it to charity, some to friends and family, buy all the books I want, travel a few places, buy my own house and call it a day.
@R-Jud: Forgive me, but the picture of you in my mind grimly attacking slugs with salt (at three in the morning, no less) cracks me up.