The Plan to ignore the BP Oil Disaster until it went away hasn’t worked out.

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Earnings Going Down: Supply and demand, baby. [Read more]

Yes, it is only Wednesday, but damn there have been some big  politcal Dick moves so far this week. [Read more]

Larry King will retire from CNN. This may be the straw that breaks America’s back.

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Oil-Soaked Beaches: With Hurricanes pushing the waters, oil is hitting more and more beaches, making this disaster a lot more real to many. [Read more]

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"It's like a celebration of being who you are, of being yourself - no judging." [Read more]

Video of German Coach Joachim Löw eating boogers and sniffing his armpits. You know you want to see it. But it just feels wrong. Go ahead. I won't judge: [Read more]

Remembering Mike & Christine. [Read more]

If you aren’t with us, you’re against us.

Wolfrum’s Word

While I hate to put extra pressure on the U.S. National Soccer Game before their must-win game against Algeria, hopefully they are aware of one important thing – a win means Jesus is better than Mohammad, pure and simple. [Read more]

Of course, outside of the French team, soccer players rarely smash into a wall and burst into flames.

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Runaway General: In an interview with Rolling Stone, Gen. Stanley McChrystal let’s his true feelings out. Please go to President Obama’s office, General. [Read more]

This is your America on Oil:

A researcher captured this image. A discarded flag (or one that has fallen from one of the many vessels in the area) rests on the ocean floor amid the oil and the bodies of dead crabs.
A two-inch layer of submerged oil is coating portions of the Gulf seafloor off the Bon Secour National Wildlife Refuge: a week after a smothering layer of floating crude washed ashore there. This scenario is being played out all along the Gulf shoreline. [Read more]

BP CEO Tony Hayward, relaxing at home with the small people now that he has his life back. [Read more]

Ron Artest enjoys his first NBA Championship as the Lakers finally beat the Celtics in a Game 7. [Read more]

The Good news? You can live forever. The Bad News? You’ll have to be a jellyfish to pull it off. [Read more]

Brazil fan Zé Aparecido was pensive during the first half of Brazil-North Korea World Cup match. [Read more]

Two weeks ago, my co-bloggers urged the American government to press Israel to end its blockade of the Gaza strip. I was skeptical that American pressure would be effective. One universal truth of sovereign nation states is that no one appreciates self-righteous foreigners telling them what to what to do, especially self-righteous foreigners with their own tainted records. Prime Minister Netanyahu will not lose any elections by standing up to Obama, but he might lose his coalition if his hard-liner constituents think he's a sucker. [Read more]

“Would you just stop it with the forsaking already?” [Read more]

We Americans are an independent people with a do-it-yourself attitude. And no one proves that more than Gary Brooks Faulkner. The 50-ish American – armed with a pistol, 40-inch sword, night-vision goggles and book of Christian verses – went to Pakistan on a one-man mission to behead Osama bin Laden.

“God is with me, and I am confident I will be successful in killing him,” Faulkner said.

And it would have all worked out perfectly if not for those meddling Pakistani police. From the Guardian: [Read more]

Was Chuck Liddell getting knocked cold worth it for Dana White and the UFC? [Read more]

(Soldiers rescue survivors during D-Day, 66 years ago today. Click here for more photos.) [Read more]

Wolfrum’s Words:

By definition, Birthers are Conspiracy Theorists. And after more than 500 days since Barack Obama was sworn in as President of the United States, their persistence means they have now equaled 9/11 Truthers as the most obnoxious of conspiracists. [Read more]