Lovely, Chuck ... how much has the insurance industry poured into your campaign coffers? This
is cold, cold stuff -- unless you are unimaginably dumb, Senator, which I somehow doubt.
Meanwhile, Cheney is working on his memoirs and waxing slightly more talkative than usual.
Watch out, Dubya .
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The United States Women's National Team got an 89th minute winner from Christine Nairn at
Charleston's Blackbaud Stadium on Wednesday night to sweep their friendly series with Canada. "I
was first of all excited to get in the game, but Cheney did all the hard work and I was just there
to make sure it went in the goal," Nairn said.
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U.S. WNT 22 July @ 11:20 PM EST
How's this for an amazing scenario: The USA will play a two-game series against Canada, and in the
first match a player will score her 100th career goal and in the second a player will score her
first? And the two players who were a part of that 100th goal, will also play a part in the first
goal. And both goals will come late in games and be game-winners?
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The defending W-League champions, the Pali Blues, powered past the Colorado Force 3-0 on Friday
night in Pacific Palisades, Calif., clinching the Western Conference title for the second
consecutive year.
The Blues improved to 8-0-3, good for 27 points. Second-place Seattle, 3-0-6, can do no better
than 24 points.
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Catching up on the news of the week, and feeling kinda naive (or something). Why the hell is
Tom Daschle stepping into the Health Care debate, getting all mushy and placating about the publilc
option, and offering up a plan of his own? Wasn't he kinda kicked out of the game? Is he mad at
Obama .
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Thanks for your comment on yesterday's post, Alice. I haven't checked out the video Bill Moyers
aired - Torturing Democracy - yet, but plan to. Meanwhile, for a never ending stream of despicable
and delusional Dickishess there is always the Dick Cheney page on the Huffington Post. I glance at
it occasionally in the hope that something bad will have happened to him.
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Read Naomi Wolf's thorough and absolutely horrific article about the sexual perversity
perpetrated by the Bushies in Iraq and elsewhere. I do not understand why Obama is rationalizing
and temporizing about releasing the photos and really going after these sadomasochistic pricks.
The activities of these dudes so speaks to the fruits of the kind of self-righteousness and
repression that is so often the hallmark of Bible thumping fundamentalism.
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TORONTO, Canada (May 25, 2009) – The U.S. Women's National Team scored twice in each half, with
goals from Shannon Boxx, Megan Rapinoe, Lindsay Tarpley and youngster Lauren Cheney to defeat
Canada 4-0 earlier this week. The match marked the U.S. Women's team first game in Canada since
2001. The Americans and Canadians will play twice [.
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The United States Women's National Team beat Canada 4-0 on Monday night in a friendly at BMO Field
in Toronto. Shannon Boxx opened the scoring for the USA in the third minute, with Christie Rampone
making it 2-0 in first half stoppage time. Lindsay Tarpley scored in the 78th minute and Lauren
Cheney finished off the US offense in the 81st.
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Okay so I do, I really do want to be rooting for Obama but what's with this latest appointment?
GE's defender on environmental issues, Ignacia Moreno, has been hired to do the legal stuff for
EPA? How did Obama explained this decision, I'm wondering. It kind of gives me a weird feeling in
my stomach.
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First, the poem - a beauty by Mark Strand from today's Writer's Almanac ...
My Name
by Mark Strand
Once when the lawn was a golden green
and the marbled moonlit trees rose like fresh memorials
in the scented air, and the whole countryside pulsed
with the chirr and murmur of insects, I lay in the grass,
feeling the great distances open above me, and wondered
what I would become and where I would find myself,
and though I barely existed, I felt for an instant
that the vast star-clustered sky was mine, and I heard
my name as if for the first time, heard it the way
one hears the wind or the rain, but faint and far off
as though it belonged not to me but to the silence
from which it had come and to which it would go.
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In a bit of a rush this morning, as usual. Our black lab Willie came up lame yesterday. He has a
chronic shoulder problem which something seems to have exacerbated. This morning he seems a little
bit better, but still not himself. He'll be turning 10 this summer, so it's worrisome to see him
hurting.
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So Abby Wambach and Kia MacNeill have garnered one match suspensions as Tonya Antonucci (WPS
Commissioner) made the call (after the WPS Disciplinary Committee had decided differently). Let
the controversy roil and the debating continue. It probably isn't a bad thing for WPS to have
everyone kinda riled at this point in the young season.
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Nice bit here from Dave giving Dick a dose of his own medicine.
Pia has announced the USWNT roster for an upcoming friendly vs. Japan ... 5/20 and 5/23 ...
meaning that 17 US players won't be with thier WPS teams for a bit - but for the most part won't
miss any matches. I was interested to see that, while the Breakers lose 4 players, one of them
isn't Lil.
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First - I watched a snippet of Maddow in which she interviewed Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson about
Cheney, et al. He's the former Chief of Staff to Colin Powell. One of the most interesting (to
me) points he made with Maddow was to note what a fearful person Dick Cheney is.
I've always seen him as fear mongering - but seeing him as himself fearful was fascinating.
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First off - Beulah's match report is up! (This is on the Breakers' win over the Freedom ...
which ranked somewhere below a broken windshield in Beulah's book ... understandably!) Sorry to
hear about your windshield! As for Abby not getting up - that was a huge gripe of mine (and my
compatriots) back in the WUSA days when "Get up Abby" was a favorite refrain when the Freedom were
in town.
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Happy Saturday morning ... as the clouds roll in, bringing some much needed rain to these
parts. I went for a run yesterday after work and jogging by the fire house, noticed the sign
saying that the fire danger was "extreme." (Breathed a small sigh of relief that I wasn't
lounging by the chiminea, endangering the neighborhood without realizing!
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Okay, of that group, which one(s) would you put your money on? Citi had a good day and the market
bounced ... meanwhile, Newsweek has put out a great piece outlining the warring amongst the rich -
a greed-fed battle they dub "the war between the estates." In the past two years, since
the market peaked, investors [.
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First off, our friend Alice (who suffers good-humoredly my unrelenting pressure to become a
JordanCornblog contributor) is off to tour Florence today. Happy travels, Alice! Happily, she
will not have to leave before the USWNT faces Iceland in their second game at the Algarve.
She (and the rest of us) will be able to follow it [.
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Russ Feingold is going to be introducing a proposed amendment to the US Constitution that will
require special elections to fill vacated Senate seats. Some states already do this by State
law - and Feingold's amendment would require all to do so. He states: "The controversies
surrounding some of the recent gubernatorial appointments to vacant Senate [.
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Saturday morning ... and please remind me to not eat handfuls of chocolate-covered cherries while
Watching Rachel Maddow ... and before going to bed! And I don't mean the sweet syrupy kind -
but nice tart ones - delicious, for sure - and probably marginally good for me (yes, I do believe I
could make [.
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First off, get well wishes to HollyCornblog who is recovering from a bad ankle sprain sustained in
a nasty fall at work. Keep it iced and raised ... and, as we like to say to Willie (and to
Ruby - but with much less effect), "Heel!" [sic] Between HollyCornblog and Hope Solo,
things have been a [...
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Having been asleep at the switch on the soccer front for awhile, I was pleased to receive a Google
Alert about the USWNT's most recent win. This one coming in Richmond, VA, where South Korea
fell to the USWNT. Vic Dorr, Jr. describes the game in the Times Dispatch. Sounds like
Angela Hucles continues her [.
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I think if there was ever any doubt that Pia Sundhage is the ideal coach for the U.S. women's team,
they've been erased. In gold.
This piece highlights some of the reasons why her approach works.
I can't help but wonder if the men's senior team had taken a similar chance, had been willing to go
a different route and stretch their concept of the game by bringing in someone who looks at play in
a fundamentally different way, if they might not be better off in the long run.
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Michael Phelps broke Mark Spitz' gold medal record last night -an amazing feat, indeed. I don't
know about you, but I find such milestones diminished by the hype ... the marketing ... the hoopla
... the commentary. The events and the raw footage about the events is enough. The look on Michael
[..
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Du Nord 16 August @ 11:54 PM EST
USA Women Olympic Match Report from du Nord reader Adam.
Quarterfinals:
-Fri Aug 15
USA 2-1 CanadaAfter a marathon match that included a rain delay and extra-time, the US emerged from the
quarterfinals victorious over regional rivals Canada.
The US took the lead in the 12th minute when Angela Hucles tapped in a header from Heather
O'Reilly.
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First (from The Writer's Almanac), a wonderful poem by Marge Piercy to start your day with
something introspective - before diving into the usual sports-centric deluge! This poem runs along
the thought-path I was pursuing last night just before sleep. Guess it may be time to get
reacquainted with myself .
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Tomorrow at 6AM we'll start the next leg of the Olympic tournament journey. There's not a lot in
the way of soccer news in the interim. The WNT Blog is a good place to track the USWNT's travels
and preparation for tomorrow's showdown with Canada. An upbeat and determined Canadian squad is
[...]SHARETHIS.
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After a beautiful weekend away and a great visit with HollyCornblog and CharlieHopbrew, there's a
lot to catch up on. I'm sure I'll be back in the swing in a couple of days ... but right now it's
pretty slow-going. On the USWNT front, Lauren Cheney is replacing Abby on the roster, as the team
[...]SHARETHIS.
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It's obvious U.S. Women's Team and their chances for a gold medal suffer without Wambach. The
question is, how much?
Here's my take for espn.com on the situation.
I'd also add that I like the inclusion of Lauren Cheney. She has a lot of experience for a
youngster, and she has in fact faced a Brazil team with Marta in the PanAmerican games final as a
member of the U20 team versus a full-strength Brazil.
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The USWNT defeated Canada 1-0 just a few hours ago, to become Peace Queen Cup champs for the second
time on a goal Angela Hucles! Hucles also won the golden ball as the tournament MVP! Here's the
write-up from USSoccer. The "Aunt Pia" part comes from a recent entry in the WNT Blog, in
which [...]SHARETHIS.
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