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2020-07-02 Home Front: Politix

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#1 'Fyre Festival. MLS edition': Soccer players blast the $65 sandwiches they are being served in the Disney bubble while preparing for their first tournament since the pandemic began

Posted by Skidmark 2020-07-02 08:05|| 2020-07-02 08:05|| Front Page Top

#2 'Nitty gritty' on Sky Sports' banned list of words due to supposed links to slavery as broadcaster orders commentators to avoid using language which may offend viewers in emails containing list of prohibited phrases

Posted by Skidmark 2020-07-02 08:09|| 2020-07-02 08:09|| Front Page Top

#3 I gave up soccer for ladies beach volleyball many years ago. I've never looked back.

Posted by Besoeker 2020-07-02 08:13|| 2020-07-02 08:13|| Front Page Top

#4 Do they still do mud wrestling?

Posted by Clem 2020-07-02 08:26|| 2020-07-02 08:26|| Front Page Top

#5 Clem, it's now sanitzer wrestling,

Posted by Deacon Blues 2020-07-02 10:06|| 2020-07-02 10:06|| Front Page Top

#6 What was that about dog whistles again?

Posted by AlanC 2020-07-02 11:40|| 2020-07-02 11:40|| Front Page Top

#7 It makes me think what quality do you need more, to be a researcher these days ? Do you have to be totally insane or just completely, shamelessly indecent ?

Posted by Dron66046 2020-07-02 11:48|| 2020-07-02 11:48|| Front Page Top

#8 That man looked at me and now I must fall down with my fake injury!

Posted by AlmostAnonymous5839 2020-07-02 13:07|| 2020-07-02 13:07|| Front Page Top

#9 And here I thought soccer had a homo problem. Both sexes.

Posted by Shating Turkeyneck1016 2020-07-02 14:04|| 2020-07-02 14:04|| Front Page Top

#10 It was only after 9/11 that I noticed that when NPR did a report on Israel or the Palestinians the Arabs were given full names, descriptions, jobs, relatives and relationships, while the Jews were given only first name and reason they were mentioned.

“Ari, who lives in the Old City of Jerusalem in a house that used to belong to a Palestinian family...”
“We tracked down the family that used to live in Ari’s house. Mahmoud El Baradei, who lives in a hovel in a refugee camp near Jerusalem with his parents, his wife and five children, and seventeen of his brothers and sisters, showed me the key to his house in the Old City as we sat together eating a scrumptious meal and talking. His grandparents were driven out by the Jews in 1948 — Jews live in the house now, and shut the door in his face when he rang the doorbell...”

Posted by trailing wife 2020-07-02 19:18|| 2020-07-02 19:18|| Front Page Top

#11 Ari was....disposable

Posted by Frank G 2020-07-02 19:19|| 2020-07-02 19:19|| Front Page Top

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