Geithner and another sleazy dirt bag

Oh good, 320 million Americans and the Dear Leader and the congress settle for a tax cheat and liar as Sec. Treasury. Finally, Geithner’s confirmation provides some diversity in the cabinet. Geithner represents all of America’s liars and cheats – the largest and densest population of whihc being in Washington D.C. Seems to me cheats and liars are the most over represented people in government.

100-0

Here a coach gets fired for running the score up on some hapless team and America gets outraged. Too bad Americans can’t get as upset when the Dear Leader nominates a tax cheat and liar to run the US Treasury.

First the dope coach wasn’t fired for running the score up. He was fired for contradicting the school administration – his boss – that had apologized and offered to forfeit the game. Dopey disagreed with the administration - his boss - and said so to a newspaper. Hey idiot you might try walking into the Headmaster’s office and running your half wit thoughts by him before shooting your ignorant mouth off to the press.

Next, the idiot coach should have been fired for running the score up to 100-0 in the first place. Now we hear all of the apologists, "What was he supposed to do? You can’t make the girls not score." Yes you can. Here’s what should/could have been done:

Ahead at 49-0 at the half, walk to the other coach and offer two of your best player to other team.

Order a minimum of 15 passes per possession in the second half and no shots closer than 5 feet behind the three point line.

Order a sagging zone on defense that allows no player closer than two feet to an opposition player.

One idiot chick said, “Well we’re trying to teach the girls to be the best they can be then we tell them to not score. What kind of message are we sending?” Oh hell I don’t know, compassion, sportsmanship, fair play, proportional response, civility, charity, helpfulness, not to beat a defenseless man to death just because you can, you know stupid stuff like that.

No doubt the same chick will be whining when some heartless bastard cuts her off in the supermarket parking lot or pushes her out of the way to get to head of the line somewhere - or worse shoots or otherwise mistreats prisoners, steals from the company or investors, cheats on his taxes and lies about it, etc. etc. Well, where do you suppose people learn such behavior?

I’ve been on both sides of lopsided scores. The one I remember most was a high school football game. We were ahead by 40+ points at the half. We could have let every player on the team score a touchdown. We could have had one of our backs set the single game rushing record. Instead we punted on first down every time in the second half and didn’t score again. What would be the point?