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13 min Birsa (SLO) 42 min Ljubiankic (SLO) 48 min Donovan (USA) 81 min Bradley (USA) First, a message to the referee: Coulibaly from Mali – go give yourself a yellow card after your balls hit your face! And after that eat them while whistling pretending they are not in!Second: it is an American thing: we only attack you if you attack us first. And from there we just do our best. Tim Howard (the Budweiser Man of the Match against England) made the fans sip nervously the golden liquid hoping his ribs will stay in place and not...

If we are not free to choose wrongly and irresponsibly, we are not free at all. So back off the Greene guy, you Democrats. The man won fair and square the primary in South Carolina. America is a free country. All kinds of people were able to govern through the history. The requirements to be a US Senator are for the person to be mostly human and of certain age – Alvin the Man is totally within the frame. The law does not prohibit us the “small” and “stupid” people to run for office. Even the requirements are not carved...

It is an honor for me to receive a response from Mr. Jesus Huerta de Soto regarding my opinion article concerning his vision about gold as the only world currency in the future. I am posting his response in full below: Dear Ellie, Just two points on your “comments” on my proposal: a) Printing the money necessary to consolidate current demand deposits and equivalents is not inflationary, as the new bank notes would be entirely “sterilized” as 100 per cent collateral to existing demand deposits. b) In a sense you are right that my plan (as any other “practical” to...

President Obama addressed the nation on the Gulf disaster. As usual his speech gave us more questions than answers: … an oil spill that is assaulting our shores and our citizens… Is America under attack? …stopping it has tested the limits of human technology… We can’t stop the spill? …Scientists at our national labs and experts from academia and other oil companies have also provided ideas and advice… But can’t stop the leak? … Countries like China are investing in clean energy jobs and industries … China is not running trillions of debt and has money to invest? …...

President Obama didn’t take time to appoint new ambassador to Slovenia. The position is vacant since January. But just because the USA does not take interest in Slovenia doesn’t mean Slovenia doesn’t take interest in the USA. This is especial y true in the wake of the clash between the two countries at the World Cup soccer championship in South Africa. Slovenia is currently a leader in group C after winning against Algeria (the USA will fight the Arabs in the last game in the first phase of the World Cup). The Slovenian Embassy in Washington DC issued an...

Democratic Senator Barbara Boxer is on a quest against misleading labeling. I am not talking about her Republican rival in the California election Carly Fiorina labeling Boxer’s hair “Sooo yesterday” . I am talking about labeling the breasts and other chicken parts by the manufacturers as “Natural”. The truth for the consumers is that those breasts and thighs in the grocery meat fridge might not be all bird. They are plumped! Pumped up! Procedures include injecting the breasts with up to 15 percent water, salt and elements of seaweed. It is all legal and the processors insist that it...

T’is the season when bunches of young people here and there sit in fancy graduation robes and hats and listen to the advice some important person is giving them in a commencement address... he Defense Secretary Robert Gates spoke at the Kaiserslautern High School in Germany, a school composed mostly of children of US service members and Foreign Service officers. It is a fascinating speech and I recommend to President Obama to spare a minute to read it. The overwhelming theme of the Obama reign has been the ‘Open Gov: Transparency, Participation, Collaboration’. There is a reason why this...

Waiting for BP to stop the oil leak and for somebody to score a goal at the soccer World Cup is very unsatisfying experience. How about trying some problem-solving the American way? Money is one of the best incentives proven to move dead souls in the right direction. It will be easier with the soccer... Put a golden brick inside the net and if you hit it – it is yours. Even the goalies will be in attacking. There will be also more fist fights on the field. After all, the most memorable moment of the last World Cup was...

The Republican Whip in the House Eric Cantor posted the proposals for spending cuts for the week on his YouCut web page. The public is encouraged to vote and the winning idea will be voted on the floor - for real. - Sell Excess Federal Property Potential savings of up to $15 billion- Terminate Duplicative Federal Bicycle and Walking Program Saves $183 million a year or $1.8 billion over ten years- Terminate New Federal Truck Parking Facilities Program Saves $6.25 million a year- Terminate Security Funding for Private Bus Companies Saves $12 million a year ($120 million over ten...

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BP CEO Tony Hayward and President Obama don’t talk to each other which is strange on many levels. However it looks like their speech writers collaborate because both leaders in the Gulf spill disaster sound like they spend hours together making their story straight. Let’s compare the messages coming from BP and the White house: We’ve helped organize the largest environmental response in this country’s history. More than 2 million feet of boom, 30 planes, and over 1,300 boats are working to protect the shoreline. Where oil reaches the shore, thousands of people are ready to clean it up. -...

The famous Spanish economist Jesus Huerta de Soto understands socialism very well. He published a book about it where he defines the monster as follows: We consider that socialism is any system of institutional aggression on the free exercise of human action or entrepreneurship. De Soto considers any such system to be socialism except of course the one he is advocating… himself. In his plan for financial reform Jesus Huerta de Soto suggests 5 stages of legislative interventions, bank reforms and inflation shocks that lead to a world system where inflation/deflation and economic crisis will be impossible. For the socialists...

The world will be football soon… I mean the World Cup... The rest of the world knows what I mean, but this is not the case in the USA where 1-out-of-3 Americans don’t even know what sport will be played in the World Cup in South Africa next week. A new Rasmussen Reports survey finds that 66% of adults in the USA correctly identify soccer as the sport played in the World Cup competition. 3% guess it is about baseball and 1% each vote for tennis, hockey or golf. 28% admit honestly that they are not sure what sport will...

Barack Obama promised us leadership not commissions when he was running for President: Just today, Senator McCain offered up the oldest Washington stunt in the book – you pass the buck to a commission to study the problem. But here’s the thing – this isn’t 9/11. We know how we got into this mess. What we need now is leadership that gets us out. I’ll provide it, John McCain won’t, and that’s the choice for the American people in this election. America took him for his word. Instead the President keeps pulling commission after commission out of his sleeves.The...

The United Kingdom is drowning in debt. A radical plan how to get rid of the problem is proposed by the Cobdence Center. If you find a flaw in the plan you will get £1,000 reward. It is not the latest spam coming to your e-mail from the UK. It is a real plan that is endorsed by economists and politicians like the member of the British Parliament Steven Baker. In just seven steps £850 billion magically appear in the system and allow the Great Britain to pay off the debt.. The plan starts with the government printing approx £850...

May 10, Associated Press reports: A junk shot would be followed by cement to seal the leak and the technique is something company officials said they might try next week. The junk shot was not tried the next week, but 16 days later under the name of Top Kill. Right after President Obama allegedly screamed: “Plug the damn hole”. The Coast Guard approved the Junk Shot called Top Kill operation. The question folks will be asking while soaking in oil trying to rescue the US Gulf Coast is: What took you so long? Let’s take a look at the time...

‘Plug that damn hole’ is not an advertising for the new iTampons but an alleged quote by President Obama commenting on the BP oil spill. However, the right wing bloggers are probably taking the phrase out of context. May be the President was reading the title of the porn video that the federal oil regulators were watching while vacationing on the dime of the companies that they were supposed to be regulating. May be he was referring to the doughnut hole that the oppressive imperialistic capitalists created so they can make you pay for air. May be he was giving...

Thousands of good people are working all across the Gulf of Mexico to fight the ecological disaster caused by the BP oil spill. Unfortunately we rarely see those everyday heroes. Instead we watch the waffling of the Obama administration top officials respond team... Lisa Jackson –the Administrator of EPA is one of the most hated officials in America. She showed total disrespect for the people of this country. When the public outrage was building during ClimateGate and the cap-and-trade bill was not able to go through the US Senate Lisa Jackson issued an executive order declaring the carbon dioxide...

We continue to hold BP responsible as the responsible party. But we are on them, watching them! This is how Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano described the federal involvement in cleaning the oil spill disaster in the Gulf of Mexico today. No kidding! The Obama administration is doing exactly this: watching BP from the sidelines. In fact we are all watching. There is a camera next to the crack in the pipe and we all are watching live deadly oil gushing into the ocean. As a teen I used to look for the Loch Ness monster on the live...

Congressman Antony Weiner has a beef with Glenn Beck and his radio and TV sponsor Goldline... To explain it to Weiner: it is the same like politician’s campaign contributions. If BP gives millions in campaign cash to ‘Barack Obama for America’ so he can become US President it does not mean that Obama is working for them even if they profit from his world view and executive decisions. Even if the President chooses to help BP by not closing their leaking oil well forever we are not allowed to say that he did it because he took campaign money from...