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Remember when McCain said that he had visited all 57 States during his campaign? Then there was the time that McCain said "Well let me be absolutely clear. Israel is a strong friend of Israel's." Oh, and what about the time that McCain said "10,000 people died" in the Kansas tornadoes (death toll really 12). Crazy stuff, eh? Wait, let's not forget when McCain said that Arkansas was a "nearby" state to Kentucky. Man was that a major flub showing a complete lack of knowledge of simple geography.
Hmm, wait a minute. I might be making a flub myself, here...
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Thank you Warner Todd Huston.
But isn't it a shame that Obama's rank ignorance, if not idiocy, and
media protection of him make it necessary to point out the
obvious? Well, obvious to the living.
You may have to be a soccer mom -or dad - to appreciate what I'm
thinking here. As parents who burned so many carbon credits
driving to youth and high school soccer games that even Al
Gore would have trouble matching us, we grew to understand soccer
fan violence.
It's the officiating.
I can think of no other sport where the game's rules ( I've heard they
exist) are so subjectively and arbitrarily enforced. Don't get me
started. Because of the ease in which they can control the
outcome of any game, many do. Refs, especially at the local level,
allow personal biases, and dislike for a certain community to
hold sway over their better selves, and act in transparently
outrageous fashion. A team's best player may be red-carded
(ejected) for passing wind. This culture of mistrust over a
referee's motives manifests itself in the rest of the world, where the
game actually has a following past high-school, with moats surrounding
the pitch meant to keep referees from being lynched.
Our media are now so brazenly in the tank that I suspect they too will soon need a moat. Good.
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