BAAAD refereeing in FIFA matches

ESPECIALLY WORLD CUP ONES!

watching the USA - Slovenia World Cup match today, i ended up reflected upon three things:

--the free kick scrums are ridiculous. (everyone is fouling everyone -- in this case, slovenians were fouling americans to beat the band, as they pretty much had been throughout the game)

--the FIFA is rejecting replay technology at the cost of the teams' and their fans' sanity.

--the referee who called back the winning USA goal is lucky we (USA soccer fans) aren't Columbian.

well, at least some folks achieved some level of payback against koman coulibaly via twitter and wiki hacks.

BP can't think ahead ??

not withstanding the tragedy of loss of human life -- the environmental catastrophe is gut wrenching.

so there's this MASSIVE explosion in the gulf of mexico on a BP oil rig on april 20th....and we still don't know why (as of 7pm on 5/5/2010).

then there's the fact that it happened HOW LONG AGO (APRIL 20th) and there is STILL OIL LEAKING FROM THE WELL????

oh WAIT -- stop the presses -- as of about 45 mins ago BP has stopped ONE of the "three" leaks. yee haw.

i don't understand why an oil company with a working off-shore drill doesn't have an emergency plan in place and isn't ready to face an explosion tragedy of ANY magnitude. it seems like it would be a given in this post 9/11 era.

BP is just now, weeks later, stopping a leak...they didn't even have a capping box built for such an event??!!! WHAAAAT???

is anyone other than me gob-smacked by this idiocy?

if there really needed to be any further reason for any of us to buy a hybrid or electric or whatever alternative fueled vehicle, this is one biggie.

HAIL and restore all the glory to....

JOSS!

restore alec baldwin? he's asking for handouts?? seriously?? i agree with this guy: restore joss whedon.

Haunted Hoax's Patrick Doyle says IT's OVER

the gluttony of paranormal television gobbling up the airwaves, that is.

according to patrick:

"...The Discovery network just seated a new GM and he plainly stated no more paranormal shows. All the programs that have come out in the last year have had terrible rating and killed any interest in new shows. This is across the board, from Discovery to A&E. Networks that were interested two months ago saw the latest ratings numbers and dropped all inquires. They stated, “Don’t even bother sending us anything in the genre because the answer is no. If you’re filming something now, stop.”

sad news for patrick himself but great news for everyone who is sick to death of these types of shows and their monopoly of television programming. i wish patrick the best with his writing endeavors -- his "haunted hoax" channel on youtube was/is a great tool in the fight against paranormal chicanery.

psychics suckering grandparents (along with loads of other people)

i ran across an interesting article offering advice on how to protect the elderly against direct mail scams -- this particular scam involved psychic scammer maria duval.

more info about this rather long-running scam (i can't understand how law enforcement isn't all over this crap -- some of these comments and entries are at least 4 years old):

http://mariaduvalscam.blogspot.com/

http://www.consumerfraudreporting.org/psychic_scams_MariaDuval.php

http://maria-duval.pissedconsumer.com/

http://www.scam.com/showthread.php?t=12797

OOOKAAAAY --- this one is a bit different

i can't say i've heard one like this before:

Florida police say a professed psychic not only allegedly bilked a female client, but also convinced her to coat her body in gel and cellophane before jogging.

i mean, as if the $50,000 shellacking wasn't enough...

definitely click on those 3 related stories links in that article for more sundry psychic scammolas.

Pat Robertson = MORON extraordinaire

according to the latest news and blogs, the man, in all of his evangelical idiocy, has stated on that stupid 700 club show that the earthquake that just ravaged haiti was due to their "pact with the devil".

oh no -- i can just see this as a new "paranormal state" episode:
exorcism of earthquake-ravaged haitians.

i know that sounds horrendously trite in the face of this tragedy, but judging from most of the shows they've made this is exactly the kind of thing PRS and the production company which films them goes for: tragedy and trauma = paranormal happenings and/or demons. perhaps they'll let pat robertson in on the paranormal action. probably not, he likely wouldn't get along with chip.

cause he's a psychic, for one reason.

if you'd like to help provide aid to haiti in a fast, easy manner you can go through wycleff jean's charity by texting “Yele” to 501501, which will automatically donate $5 to the Yele Haiti Earthquake Fund (it will be charged to your cell phone bill)