Soccer to consider replay for goals, advice for that tool Spencer Pratt and a bad day for illegal immigrants

- Finally, soccer is getting around to what other sports have embraced and used to improve their games exponentially: replay technology. After numerous, blatant blown calls in this summer’s World Cup that led to goals being disallowed or not counted, soccer’s governing body may finally be coming around on the issue of replay. Adding goal-line video technology to games will be on FIFA's agenda for its October meeting, although it would have been even better for soccer's governing body to have its rule-making panel discuss the issue at its meeting this week. The International Football Association Board meets in Cardiff, Wales, on Wednesday but will have a very short agenda, namely the continuing experiment with extra assistant referees behind the goals. Video replay for goals will have to wait for a few months, at which point the organization will hear data from a trial run for the video system in last season's Europa League. FIFA president Sepp Blatter said that goal-line technology would be considered while also offering up belated, worthless apologies to England and Mexico for the officiating errors that helped eliminate them from the World Cup. Both of those nations would probably be supportive of adding an extra set of eyes to the equation, as would any country that enjoys the concept of having a goal credited to their score when they successfully advance the ball across the goal line marking the front of the opposing team’s net. Fact is, aside from Major League Baseball and the bass-ackwards idiots who run it, other sports have incorporated replay into their games on a substantial level and if soccer is truly the player it aspires to be on the international sports scene, it won't waste any additional time in following suit………

- I could have saved Spencer Pratt a lot of trouble and a few words (which have to be at a premium for him because he has an IQ of 17) with the following sentence he could have uttered to explain his divorce with vapid, surgically enhanced skank/ex-wife Heidi Montag: “I’m an ass hat.” Those four words sum up Pratt perfectly, but instead, he had to yammer on about why their marriage failed and his reasons are exactly what you’d expect to hear flying out of the pie hole of a self-absorbed, brain-dead tool who is publicly known only because of reality television. "We love each other but I'm a famewhore and I'll never grow out of it," Pratt stated. "She believes in bad press. There's no way my love for fame and her love for puppies will ever work out successfully. She just wants to hike and hang out and be calmer." Never has the term attention whore seemed like far too nice a way to describe someone as it does with Pratt. The levels on which it is possible to detest this fool are infinite and varied, so much so that he almost makes his troll of an ex-wife seem likeable by comparison - almost. "I want every kind of press," he stated. "[Heidi] knows that and doesn't want that." Perhaps proving that she’s every bit as moronic as the a-hole she married, Montag apparently thought that Pratt would eventually tire of constantly having cameras in his face. "She thought I'd burn out of this, but no, I'm still the same Spencer who went on 'The Hills' to be famous," he says. "I still need to do stunts and take cues from Brad Pitt and Tom Cruise." Whoa there, champ. Ease up on likening yourself to guys with actual acting talent who have contributed works of value to society, albeit in the form of bloated blockbusters and jumping on couches. However, thanks for confirming what all of us already knew, namely that everyone who appears on a reality show for even one second is a worthless, parasitic attention whore with no talent and no ambition in this world beyond fame. Now if you and that ugly-ass beard of yours are done talking, please go get yourself Botoxed or tummy-tucked again because the more plastic surgeries you have, the higher your chances of dying on the operating table and trust me when I say that the world will be a better place without you………

- Illegal immigrants, it’s go time, b’otches! Starting in August, the United State will be deploying U.S. National Guard forces along the U.S. border with Mexico and those guardsmen will be fully trained and deployed by the end of the month, government officials announced Monday. For an entire year, 1,200 Army and Air National Guard troops will be in place for a year to assist the Border Patrol in monitoring and capturing all you border crashers looking to cash in on free health care and other perks and benefits that come with being a resident of these here United States. The addition of the National Guard units is a temporary measure, a "gap-filler" while the Customs and Border Patrol agency hires additional staff to lock down the almost 2,000-mile long southern border with Mexico. Troops will come from the four border states of California, Arizona, New Mexico and Texas and all will be fully trained and in place in by September 1, according to Gen. Craig McKinley, commander of the National Guard. The Guard units will focus primarily on looking for the illegal border crossers and smugglers as well as in intelligence gathering while leaving the actual law enforcement activities such as arrests of illegal immigrants to the Border Patrol. Oh, and the soldiers will be armed as well, albeit under limited by rules of engagement that allow them to shoot only to defend themselves. The deployment comes as part of President Barak Obama's border plan announced in late May. The $500 million he requested at the time to stem the flow of illegals across the border is still tied up in legislative red tape, but at least those guarding the border will be getting some much-needed assistance. There will also be additional aircraft sent to the Tucson sector of the border to combat recent increases in human trafficking and border crashing. In other words your fight to jump the border and have your soon-to-be-born kids in the U.S. so they can receive (undeserved) status as American citizens just got tougher, compadres………

- Maybe I’m just a complainer, but I think we really should be working on ways to eliminate mosquitoes all together and not just trying to find ways to create so-called "malaria-proof" species of those pests that show up to suck your blood while you try to enjoy a beautiful summer night in the great outdoors. But instead of heeding my call, a team of scientists led by University of Arizona professor Michael Riehle have engineered a genetic "on" switch that permanently activates a malaria-destroying response in mosquitoes. All of the data is in their depressing report in the journal Public Library of Science Pathogens. The argument by the researchers is that if these mosquitoes are successfully introduced into the wild, they could prevent millions of people from becoming infected with life-threatening Plasmodium -- the parasite that causes malaria. "We were surprised how well this works," Riehle said. "We were just hoping to see some effect on the mosquitoes' growth rate, lifespan or their susceptibility to the parasite. But it was great to see that our construct blocked the infection process completely." It’s a nice sentiment to be sure, especially in light of the fact that 250 million people are infected by the four kinds of Plasmodium each year. The infections occur when female Anopheles mosquitoes, looking to suck blood to feed their offspring, ingests an average of 40 Plasmodium parasites, which then develop and then make their way to the mosquito's salivary glands, where they sit, ready to infect the insect’s next victim. The scientists targeted a specific gene impacting the mosquito’s longevity, immune system and digestion and came up with a treatment that they believe could address the problem. In mosquitoes with the enhanced version of the Akt gene, researchers found no trace of the malaria parasites. However, any excitement over the research must be tempered with the fact that this new treatment is nowhere near being ready for use in the field. "We are at least a decade away from actually releasing mosquitoes into the wild," Riehle admitted. In the meantime, how’s about we work on ways to exterminate mosquitoes and that way, the issue of making them malaria-proof becomes irrelevant……….

- Pretty much anything that happens in Israel, from the smallest detail to the largest policy decision, sparks massive controversy. The breakfast choice of a Jerusalem rabbi could spark a major incident, so it almost goes without saying that the Israeli cabinet deciding to approve a provision that would require all prospective citizens living in Israel illegally to swear allegiance to a "Jewish democratic state" is going to touch off a huge crap storm. Right there to tout the law was Israeli prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu, who said on Sunday that the law would preserve Israel's "Jewish and democratic character". Lining up to oppose the new law are numerous human rights groups who have condemned it because they claim it would make it more difficult for Palestinians to obtain Israeli citizenship. Media outlets in Jerusalem have alleged that the measure was designed to make it more difficult for Palestinians married to Israeli Arabs to obtain citizenship, but “dangerous” and “racist” are two of the terms being thrown around to describe the measure, which is actually an amendment to the Citizenship and Entry into Israel Law passed in 2003. That law basically makes it impossible for Palestinians to obtain Israeli citizenship. Ironically, the law was originally passed as a temporary emergency measure, but the Knesset has repeatedly extended it in the face of vociferous opposition from groups outside the government. Under the law, many Palestinians married to Israelis essentially live in Israel illegally. The group calling the newest amendment "dangerous" and "racist" would be Israel's Association for Civil Rights. Other groups say that the changes will prevent families from reunifying and force non-Jews to embrace Zionism, with numerous editorials and opinion pieces against the measures running the day after its announcement. Coupled with this controversial decision is a plan by the Israeli government to seize thousands of abandoned properties in occupied East Jerusalem. Yehuda Weinstein, the Israeli attorney general, told the supreme court that the government intends to seize land from people who fled Israel when it became an independent state in 1948 and that land owned by Palestinians who live in the occupied West Bank or the Gaza Strip could be included. Now it’s up to the court to approve or reject the seizure, but either way, it’s bound to piss off a lot of people………