Mexico Knocks U.S. Soccer Out of Olympics

Yahoo News , AP ^ | 02/11/04 | John Rice

[Corazon]

Wed Feb 11, 3:13 PM ET

By JOHN RICE, Associated Press Writer GUADALAJARA, Mexico - The boos nearly drowned out "The Star-Spangled Banner," and a few dozen fans chanted "Osama! Osama!" as the United States was eliminated by Mexico in Olympic men's soccer qualifying.

 

[dagnabbit]

Maybe on the map it's ours, but Mexico owns it.

Mighty nice of us though to keep paying the mortgage and utilities.

[Rockitz]

Stu must live in the Valley and not on the coast- poor b@st@rd. ;o)

[Stu Cohen]

Look out your window today? Yesterday? Day before..? Beautiful.

Yeah, mid-70's. Pretty nice. I've been in Chicago on nice days. Milwaukee too.

June gloom is pretty nast stuff. Is the weather really perfect here year-round? I don't think so, but it's nor horrible.

I'm glad you're so happy.

Also, your 30 day figure is ridiculous.

Sure it was. It was an obvious exaggeration. But are you claiming that we don't have lots and lots of unclear days where the sky is some color of off-brown because of the smog? Go up on Mulholland on any summer day when the temperature is over 80 and look out out over the basin. You will notice a definite line where the blue sky meets the brown gunk in the air. You can't miss it.

May-early July is fog until mid-afternoon.

It's not that clear here that often.

[Stu Cohen]

Stu must live in the Valley and not on the coast- poor b@st@rd. ;o)

Valley?????

Them are fightin' words sir. I flatulate in your general direction ;-)

I live in Central LA. About 10 miles inland. And Malibu is cold as *$&^ and foggy 9 months out of the year, so I ain't that enamored. The water is cold year round, the wind blows 24/7, and the only time it's warm is when there is an onshore flow. (or maybe i'm just jealous that I can't afford to live there).

[Pharmboy]

Nope--it won't do. Steely Dan sez so.

Oleanders growing outside her door
Soon they're gonna be in bloom
Up in Annandale
I can't stand her
Doing what she did before
Living like a gypsy queen
In a fairy tale
Well I hear the whistle but I can't go
I'm gonna take her down to Mexico
She said oh no
Guadalajara won't do

CHORUS

California tumbles into the sea
That'll be the day I go
Back to Annandale
Tried to warn you
About Chino and Daddy Gee
But I can't seem to get to you
Through the U.S. Mail
Well I hear the whistle but I can't go
I'm gonna take her down to Mexico
She said oh no
Guadalajara won't do

[Pharmboy]

You would look great in that outfit Luis...go home to human sacrifice.

[Luis Gonzalez]

LOL!

Not unless I spend the next six months at Bally's Scandinavian.

However, as is your style, all insults, no substance.

[Pharmboy]

Name ONE THING the Mexicans gave to civilization (not counting food, human sacrifice and Salma Hayek).

Go home...they speak espanol all the time. They'll love you there and your brooding about losing the war 150 years ago. Boo frickin' hoo.

If all you can do is define your existence by the land you had and lost, TS.

Adios you boor.

[Luis Gonzalez]

"Go home."

I'm home now.

[Rick Deckard]

And who did Mexico belong to before there was a Mexico? Unless you are 100% Indian, how can you claim that anything in North America belongs to you? Perhaps one of your ancestors recieved a Spanish land grant from El Rey?

[Rytwyng]

yep.

Get married, have a lot of kids, and teach them to shoot. Otherwise:

"If you do not believe in your own stock enough to wish to see the stock kept up, then you are not good Americans, you are not patriots, and...I for one shall not mourn your extinction; and in such event I shall welcome the advent of a new race [raza nueva?] that will take your place because you will have shown that you are not fit to cumber the ground." -- President Theodore Roosevelt, 1911

[Rockitz]

I think I understand the current administration's immigration strategy now.

Let them all in so that when the debt comes due, they'll be stuck with the bill and the grifters (maybe I'll be fortunate enough to be one) will have moved on to the next land of opportunity. I'm usually not so pessimistic, but I fear the country is lost.

[Rytwyng]

Let them all in so that when the debt comes due, they'll be stuck with the bill and the grifters (maybe I'll be fortunate enough to be one) will have moved on to the next land of opportunity

Farmland is cheap in Argentina and Chile, and they don't hate you for being white down there. Quite a number of American small farmers are moving down to those countries. I and several friends have discussed moving down there as a group and starting all over, as we want to escape the urban trap and probably can never do it in the US.

[Rockitz]

Farmland is cheap in Argentina and Chile, and they don't hate you for being white down there. Quite a number of American small farmers are moving down to those countries. I and several friends have discussed moving down there as a group and starting all over, as we want to escape the urban trap and probably can never do it in the US.

So I guess I better start learning Spanish, huh?

[PRND21]

Sure it was. It was an obvious exaggeration.

No it wasn't and you're suspicious.

[Stu Cohen]

No it wasn't and you're suspicious.

That's suspicious????? WTF???

Yikes!

Don't look now, but your shadow is following you. Looks like it means business too.

[merry10]

I believe that is what it was. I was on my way to Otay Ranch and Mrs.Liberty's house. I drove by with my mouth dropped open!

[1rudeboy]

He considered games in LA as "away" games. Sad.

Heck, threads on FR concerning U.S. soccer are "away" threads.

[AmericanVictory]

what does this say about the proposal to give amnesty to Mexicans here in the U.S.?

[Merdoug]

I'm just commenting on the disposition of those wonderful folk taking over this country at the direction of those wonderful American businesses using them as slave-labor and our wonderful Republican-run Government that is fully endorsing the creation of a two-tier economic state: the poor and the rich. If one scoffs at this; they should stop drinking their GOP kool-aid, diregard the conservative propoganda (yes; conservatives get propoganda, just like their brothers, the liberals) and try to think for themselves. What comes from outsourcing jobs and allowing illegals into the country, who will work with no insurance, no benefits, no record-keeping and slave-labor wages? The answer is fat rich business owners and a population of slaves. All of one's protests and blindness to these facts will not alter the truth. One must keep in mind that the motives of both parties is not the good of America and it's future but the continuation of THEIR power. If one looks at their actions in this light, everything becomes clearer. Obviously, Bush and the Republicans believe that they will retain power by taking the Liberal tactics of creating a "welfare" government and actually bringing in more low-income people from ANOTHER country, while appeasing businesses by allowing them to be traitors and moving jobs overseas. People here are buying these goods with "old" money (kids get money from their parents) or on credit. Without good jobs being created HERE: manufacturing and high-tech, the system is going to collapse. Where will the jobs come from? Will all jobs be "service" jobs? Will nothing be made here in America? Those higher-tech jobs that illegals can't do (yet) will be jumped on by the remaining workforce and those business owners will rub their hands with glee. A win-win for businesses, Bush gets his kool-aid drinker votes and enough Hispanic votes to win another term and America sinks further into the toilet. I don't know why I care anymore: I don't like the American people much anyway. There are those few who are good still, but most are selfish greedy self-centered "keeping-up-with-the-Jones'es" shallow nothings who watch and enjoy that crap on TV and listen to that sh*t they play for "music" and buy that "real wood" furniture for their homes. It's just the dumbing-down of our culture and our values that hurts me the most.