The two African teams in today’s games hung on with great defensive efforts that generated scoreless first halves in both games.

The Final Scores

France 2-0 Nigeria
Germany 2-1 Algeria

The Nigerian goalie, Vincent Enyeama, was able to frustrate the French, and Victor Moses made a beautiful save of a French shot that caught Vincent out of position, but Vincent rushed forward to block a French cross and didn’t get enough of the ball to clear it, giving Paul Pogba the opportunity to head it into the empty net.

The second French goal is down as an ‘own goal’ by Joseph Yobo, but the shot by Mathieu Valbuena was destined for the net and Yobo didn’t get enough of the ball to divert it.

The single Nigerian goal was disallowed as Nigeria was off sides.

The German-Algerian game was similar with the scoring all in Extra time, a German goal at the beginning and then the second German goal followed by Algeria’s goal at the end. The Germans had to wait until the Algerians were worn out to actually score. The German team controlled the ball two-thirds of the time and took three times as many shots as the Algerians, but the Fennec Foxes played great defense for the full 90 minutes of standard time. They were just worn out when they went back for the 30 minutes of Extra Time.

I’m concentrating on the weather and the World Cup because the weather affects me and the World Cup is more calming than watching the Catholic majority on the Supreme Court impose Canon Law on the formerly non-religious United States. They made it clear they were political in Bush v. Gore, corporate tools in multiple cases, and now they are imposing the laws created by a group of male dementia patients in silk dresses on the people of the United States.

Part of the training for interrogators/interviewers in both the military and law enforcement is recognizing when people are being evasive when they answer questions. Watching Supreme Court nominees testify is a good training tool. I knew the suckers were lying like hell, but Senators don’t really have the training to question people and get the truth. When you put religious whackoes on the bench, you are going to get religious whacko decisions.

The ‘Synod’ of Catholic Justices don’t believe that women really have rights, so it doesn’t bother them when decisions chip away at the rights the Constitution and laws give them.

The Supreme Court of the United States has no credibility with me, or many other US citizens. We don’t believe we will receive ‘equal justice under law’ in the overtly political, corporate, religious court.