NEWS & CURRENT EVENTS
Barack Obama accepting the resignation of General Stanley McChrystal was not at the level of Truman firing MacArthur, so please get a grip on your suspenders, Larry King! Now hopefully the General is put in charge of another division somewhere umm “quieter” where there are few reporters around him, because he is too good a soldier to just be let go for something so trivial. For those who don’t know, members McChrystal’s staff badmouthed the civilian leadership and their strategy at a bar. Nothing new right? Even the drive thru guy at Burger King rags on his boss now and then. The problem is that these nitwits did it in front of a reporter for Rolling Stone who was doing a piece on the General and his staff. Brilliant. Sir with all due respect, even a squad leader knows to keep squad issues within the squad, and instructs his soldiers to at-ease the rhetoric in front of strangers.I agree that Obama can’t have such comments attributed to such a high ranking military commander. It undermines civilian control over the military. But if he is smart, he wouldn’t push General McChrystal too far down. Remember you don’t know what he knows, and you never served a day in uniform, so easy on the firing stick Barry.
Now, replacing him with General David Petraeus is a no brainer, this officer is by far the best man for the job, having curbed the insurgency in Iraq about as much as it could be curbed. I expect a swift Senate confirmation, but one thing I hope Petraeus remembers is that Iraqis were not motivated by fundamentalism and they could be bought (which was essentially the strategy). Afghanis are not motivated by money, but by their belief in God and their tribes. I hope he gets this one right or there will be a lot of second guessing.
SPORTS
Every sport needs a moment. An occurrence that brings people to the sport that would otherwise not care. For 8 years, Landon Donovan has been the American face of a sport that Americans don’t really care for, at least not on a level with baseball or NFL football. But after years of hard work, Donovan’s moment came yesterday against Algeria. To score a goal so late in stoppage time, and for Americans, to actually have the referee allow the damn goal in the first place, was a remarkable feat in so many ways. It was a World Cup goal that will be talked about for years, history 
Americans could never claim before. That goal also did something that even having the World Cup in the US in 1994 couldn’t do…it got Americans interested. I have always loved how the World Cup effects New York City, but we have a huge immigrant population from all over the world, so you would expect this city to be nuts during the Cup, but now, all Americans are interested; thank Landon Donovan for that.And speaking of Algeria, Rafik Saifi showed what a class act he is by slapping a female reporter after his team’s loss to the US. Apparently they have an ongoing media feud, but hitting a woman in front of witnesses? I guess that’s how angry, bitter and frustrated losing to the US, combined with being occupied for so many years by France, a nation of snail eating cowards, can make you. I guess when you hit a woman, your cowardice level is so high you can’t even defend yourselves from weaklings like the French.
And speaking of the French, much like their strategy to defend themselves against the Germans, French soccer has also become a joke. After mutinying against their coach for dismissing a player for being a self absorbed, self entitled asshole (imagine that?) the French national team is in total disarray. I guess they are not aware that this is the World Cup; it only comes around every four years and every player in the world would give their left arm to play in it just once. Like the Magnot line, the French have once again squandered talent and time with something trivial and stupid that will cost them dearly for the rest of their lives. And to add asshole to injury, after they got beat by South Africa and eliminated from the World Cup, the French coach inexplicably refused to shake hands with South African coach Carlos Alberto Parreira. It’s not South Africa’s fault that your team imploded. Sometimes feigning indifference with a thick accent and a cigarette in your mouth is not cool.
And of course, no commentary on the World Cup would be complete without mentioning asshole referee Koman Coulibaly, but I also would like to hold the assholes at FIFA accountable as well. Someone needs to tell these shitheads that they are not James Bond, and keeping why a call was made secret is not a matter of global security. This is supposedly the biggest sport in the world and there are no rules in place where an official has to explain a call? Sure he will no longer officiate any games in the World Cup, sure his blunder is all but forgotten now that Team USA HAS WON THEIR GROUP 
FOR THE FIRST TIME SINCE 1930!!!!! But hey FIFA, how about you join the 21st Century and begin to incorporate at least some replay? That’s why American sports might not be as popular, but certainly are better played and better officiated. And don’t give me that (ESPN Commentator) Ruud Gullit bullshit that “sometimes things just don’t go your way in soccer.” Are you nuts? A weak Cliché is no excuse for a lack of structure and objectivity in officiating. Yes mistakes are inevitable, but why not correct them if you can? Not doing so on purpose is just stupid. Last month when Armando Galarraga was robbed of a perfect game, the official who blew the called stepped up like a gentleman and apologized, but more importantly, he admitted that he made a mistake. Why? Because officials are held accountable here, that’s what keeps the games fair.Is it true that Kim Kardashian is banging Miles Austin? The only reason this even concerns me is because I’m a Cowboys fan and I don’t want another Jessica Simpson problem. The last time the offense let a fame starved skank in the house th
ey lost in the first round of the playoffs.THIS WEEK’S REASON WHY TERRORISTS WANNA KILL US
Lady Ga Ga at any sporting event.
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