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Brazil Is Tired of Being Scolded
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| MAY 26, 2014
| Vanessa Barbara
Posted on 05/27/2014 9:47:07 AM PDT by Berlin_Freeper
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SAO PAULO (AP) Brazilian World Cup host city Manaus has declared a state of emergency as the waters of an Amazon River tributary swell
RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) A Brazilian consumer defense agency said it's found past-expiration food in the hotels where national soccer teams from Italy and England will stay during the World Cup.
"There Will Be No World Cup"
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05/27/2014 9:51:19 AM PDT
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Berlin_Freeper
(You can't be passive and moral.)
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posted on
05/27/2014 9:54:57 AM PDT
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Berlin_Freeper
(You can't be passive and moral.)
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posted on
05/27/2014 9:56:22 AM PDT
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Berlin_Freeper
(You can't be passive and moral.)
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Brazilian bureaucracy makes the US Government look efficient. I've experienced it first-hand.
Imagine your worst experiences with the Department of Motor Vehicles, the Internal Revenue Service, and the VA Hospital, all rolled into one.
Then multiply it by five. And you will start to grasp it.
However, Brazilians take it in stride: they have never known any other way.
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05/27/2014 9:57:00 AM PDT
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justlurking
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To: Berlin_Freeper
Athens managed to pull off a successful Olympics (at the cost of bankrupting a nation, mind you); Brazil can pull of a World Cup. The media orbs depending on it will ensure that any critical negatives get papered over until well after the event.
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05/27/2014 10:01:54 AM PDT
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kevkrom
(I'm not an unreasonable man... well, actually, I am. But hear me out anyway.)
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05/27/2014 10:04:12 AM PDT
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Berlin_Freeper
(You can't be passive and moral.)
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05/27/2014 10:13:26 AM PDT
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Berlin_Freeper
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Azerbaijan, a little Eastern European nation tucked away on the Caspian Sea, has never been confused as a soccer power.
It is ranked 85th in the world and since independence in 1992 has never qualified for a World Cup or European championship.
U.S. coach Jurgen Klinsmann could not imagine a better opponent to begin the nitty-gritty of a World Cup campaign.
The 14th-ranked Americans will play host to Azerbaijan on Tuesday night at Candlestick Park in the first of three exhibitions before the team travels to Brazil.
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05/27/2014 10:18:34 AM PDT
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Berlin_Freeper
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FIFAs secretary general, Jérôme Valcke, declared we could risk being the worst organizers of the worst event. He had previously said that Brazil needed a kick up the backside.
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05/27/2014 10:21:49 AM PDT
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mikrofon
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I have a great idea to solve TWO problems at ONE time. Send Mitt Romney to Brazil to fix their Olympics!
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05/27/2014 10:23:35 AM PDT
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Dr. Sivana
("I'm a Contra" -- President Ronald Reagan)
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Brazil team bus attacked The protests started outside the teams hotel in Rio de Janeiro where coach Luiz Felipe Scolari had just met his squad on Monday. The hostile crowd, consisting mainly of striking teachers, covered the bus in stickers with messages protesting against next months tournament.
One of the banners read There will not be a cup while the crowd chanted "There will be no World Cup, there will be a strike.
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05/27/2014 10:24:25 AM PDT
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Berlin_Freeper
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05/27/2014 10:36:12 AM PDT
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Berlin_Freeper
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05/27/2014 10:50:38 AM PDT
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Berlin_Freeper
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05/27/2014 10:52:05 AM PDT
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Berlin_Freeper
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At this point it’s become standard to “report” that the location of some big event is failing completely and the whole thing is going to collapse... and then everything goes fine. The anniversary Olympics in Greece seems to have been when it became necessary to predict disaster and then studiously pretend no such predictions were made when no disaster happens. It’s gotten to be the sporting equivalent of those “worst flu season ever” stories we see every November, nothing more than reporters filling space requirements.
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05/27/2014 10:58:04 AM PDT
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discostu
(Seriously, do we no longer do "phrasing"?!)
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05/27/2014 11:05:15 AM PDT
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Berlin_Freeper
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My fourth-grade teacher told us that Brazil was an up-and-coming world power, and would become quite formidable on the world stage, once they got their act together.
That was 42 years ago. We’re still waiting.
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05/27/2014 11:15:28 AM PDT
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Berlin_Freeper
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What do you expect when their logo is a Facepalm.
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05/27/2014 11:17:02 AM PDT
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dfwgator
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