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  1. 1.

    Yatsuno

    I find it fascinating Tahiti has a team at all. I figured they just followed Australia or New Zealand or something. Just on the basis of their existence Go Tahiti!

  4. 4.

    NickT

    @Yatsuno:

    I am surprised Nigeria managed to field a team, what with the country being entirely composed of the suddenly wealthy wives of deceased Treasury ministers and all.

  6. 6.

    Amir Khalid

    Representing Africa and Oceania respectively, right? The latter are the ones who get thumped by rugby scores in the World Cup qualifiers, is all I know about them. This could be painful.

  10. 10.

    NickT

    @Yatsuno:

    You mean there’s something about the Nigerian team that we don’t know?

    Man, Derbyshire is going to really freak out about this one!

  11. 11.

    Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again)

    @Yatsuno:

    Sure, but I don’t think FIFA’s gone co-ed at this point.

  15. 15.

    Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again)

    @ranchandsyrup:

    I knew nothing of this, but now I’m bummed just because New Caledonia missed out on this tournament.

  16. 16.

    Amir Khalid

    Tahiti had the first on-target shot at goal. Moral victory for them. But then Nigeria score with their first shot. Match victory for them, I’m thinking.
    ETA: An own goal by Tahiti’s Nicolas Vallar. So Tahiti can proudly say they opened the scoring tonight.

  18. 18.

    burnspbesq

    Tahiti’s manager has realistic goals: he’d like to have one half (out of six before they go home) in which they don’t concede a goal.

  20. 20.

    ? Martin

    So, in the CA budget (passed early) they’ve expanded the state Medicaid system into alignment with ACA and restored most of the dental benefits for Medicaid patients (was cut in the 2009 budget). So, almost all dental care (cavities, crowns, bridge work) is back on.

    That’ll help on the jobs front too. Overall it will expand medical/dental care for about 9 million people.

  21. 21.

    burnspbesq

    New Zealand did win OFC World Cup qualifying, which means that have a home-and-home at the end of the year against the fourth-place team in CONCACAF (likely either Honduras or Panama) to get to Brazil 2014.

  22. 22.

    Punchy

    Nigeria came into this game as a -1600 favorite. No, that’s not an erroneous zero in there. Minus sixteen hundy. Goal line was +/- 3.

    Tahiti aint winning this, short of the crookedest refs this side of Singapore.

  27. 27.

    NickT

    @? Martin:

    Now that is good news – and it shows what can happen once the GOP are denied the ability to obstruct the process of legislation and government.

  30. 30.

    Face

    About Mr. Marama….

    Still boasting his trademark lithe and fleet-of-foot high-energy style, the striker will provide valuable guile and experience in the Tahiti side.

    Lithe and guile. 2 traits I really look for in star futbol players.

  31. 31.

    catclub

    @? Martin: Political Animal has an item on changing the ACA to include religiously sponsored insurance plans, and that all the main religious groups are in favor of it, and most of them are heavily GOP leaning. I think that the clergy will benefit if they are thrown into the general exchanges, but the religiously sponsored insurance companies are not.

    I also think those insurance companies will have a hard time paying for contraceptive care and such.

    Fixing the omission would be bad in my view.

  32. 32.

    srv

    I didn’t know Nigeria played cricket. And I thought the Tahitians got rid of the Indians.

  33. 33.

    Amir Khalid

    Down nil-three at halftime. At least Tahiti didn’t park the bus in front of goal. Better finishing (and better luck) might have resulted in a smaller deficit.

  34. 34.

    Mandalay

    OT, but the head of the Australian Army is pretty cool. Check out the video at this link where he is addressing the demeaning of women in the army.

    I think anyone who decides to fuck with this guy will lose. Some serious leadership on display there.

  37. 37.

    ? Martin

    @Yatsuno: He said he would do it if we could afford it. We’re definitely on track for it. I think the high speed rail needs to get rolling (cleared another hurdle last week) – that’s a pretty huge financial commitment to the state, and the unemployment rates needs to get down more before anyone concludes that the current revenue projections are stable. There’s still a HUGE bill due to education in the state, and there is a public salary equity issue still to contend with. So, there’s a lot of big commitments the state still can’t meet. But the legislature has passed it before (Arnold vetoed) so assuming things keep improving, we should get there before long.

  39. 39.

    ? Martin

    @catclub:

    Fixing the omission would be bad in my view.

    Sure. What would a Christian Science policy look like? Or a Scientology one? That’s the problem with acceding to moral opposition based on religion – there’s no end to it without discriminating against some religions, which was the whole point of the first amendment. They recognized that it was a trap that they couldn’t afford to fall into. Hopefully Congress can muster up the same wisdom.

  40. 40.

    Randinho

    I’ve been to that stadium where this is taking place in Belo Horizonte a couple of times: once to see a Minas Derby where my beloved Cruzeiro beat Atletico Mineiro and once to see Atletico get pasted 3-1 by Corinthians, with Corinthians down to 10 men. Poor finishing was the only thing that kept the score from being 8-1.

    The stadium was nice then. I’m curious to see how the renovation improved it.

  42. 42.

    scav

    @Amir Khalid: I was wondering when here would catchup to the bbc live feed! What is this air paddle of which they speak? Want update with photo!

  44. 44.

    Amir Khalid

    Tahiti have now scored three goals tonight. (Two of them were own goals in favour of Nigeria.) Whereas Nigeria have scored only two. So Tahiti can claim to have outscored a national side with a much higher FIFA ranking.

  47. 47.

    pokeyblow

    So I don’t watch much TV, and I’m sitting in a pub after a late lunch, and the television here has a Jake Tapper CNN show on.

    What the fuck is up with his Paul Harvey-style delivery? Guy sounds like a real stroker.

  48. 48.

    scav

    As I’m only going by the various live feeds, is this an interesting game to watch play out with more unexpected strengths and weaknesses than reflected by mere score? Certainly getting hints of that over at the beeb.

  49. 49.

    Amir Khalid

    One-six with ten minutes left. This is just verging on a rugby-score victory for Nigeria.

  52. 52.

    ThresherK

    @Yatsuno: Actually, Australia withdrew from Oceana to play in Asia, a few rounds ago. That’s why New Zealand is almost always the representative for the World Cup, both M and F.

    Nigeria struggled more than any 6-1 winning side should have to. It does not bode well for them.

    @scav: Yes, it’s more entertaining than the scoreline indicates. Tahiti weren’t just sitting back waiting to minimize the damage, but picking spots nicely.

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