Where’s the Outrage?

In a salute to fairness, I’ll post some major sports news.  Now, I’m not a golfer.  I rode a bike when I was a child but I do appreciate the physical conditioning that it takes to complete the Tour de France.  Tiger recovered from a relatively bad round yesterday to win his 3rd British Open.  (I’m more of a football and basketball kind of guy)

HOYLAKE, England (AP) — The emotions had been trapped in Tiger Woods since he stood at his father’s grave two months ago, set loose only after he tapped in his final putt Sunday to win the British Open.

It was his 11th major championship, but the first one they couldn’t share.

He plucked the ball out of the cup, turned slightly and started to grin when a mixture of sadness and satisfaction washed over his face and he screamed out, “Yes!” more
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PARIS (AP) — The highs and lows of Floyd Landis’ nail-biter of a bike race ended without a hitch Sunday as he won the Tour de France and kept cycling’s most prestigious title in American hands for the eighth straight year.

The 30-year-old Landis, pedaling with an injured hip, cruised to victory on the cobblestones of the Champs-Elysees, a day after regaining the leader’s yellow jersey and building an insurmountable lead in the final time trial.

“I kept fighting, never stopped believing,” Landis said, shortly after he received the winner’s yellow jersey on the podium, joined by his daughter, Ryan. more

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Reuters is now reporting that high ranking Iraqi officials are talking about dividing the country -

BAGHDAD, July 21 (Reuters) - Iraqi leaders have all but given up on holding the country together and, just two months after forming a national unity government, talk in private of “black days” of civil war ahead. 

Signalling a dramatic abandonment of the U.S.-backed project for Iraq, there is even talk among them of pre-empting the worst bloodshed by agreeing to an east-west division of Baghdad into Shi’ite and Sunni Muslim zones, senior officials told Reuters. 

Tens of thousands have already fled homes on either side. 

“Iraq as a political project is finished,” one senior government official said — anonymously because the coalition under Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki remains committed in public to the U.S.-sponsored constitution that preserves Iraq’s unity.  more
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This can only mean more violence as the Sunni’s begin to fight for oil fields and other “prime” real estate.

Tags: Mess O'Potamia (Iraq/Iran/Israel/Palestine) by ecthompson
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