Employment and health insurance

Employment has as much or as little to do with health insurance as it has to what food we eat or what car we drive.

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/03/upshot/the-illogic-of-employer-sponsored-health-insurance.html?_r=0

Jogo Bonito : Brazil versus Colombia

Vintage inter continental battle : Argentina versus Belgium

Groceries and laundry during the regular 90 min play time of the other two games !

Seems like USA did not recover from the paralyzingly lightening strike about 30 seconds from close of game against Portugal, They got beaten fair and square by Belgium. Tim Howard's saves were out of the world but that pointed to sleeping midfield and non-functional offense. The saving grace was that USA did wake up in the last 10 to 15 min even found energy to create some golden chances and scored also. May the best of all the group topper teams win in the quarter finals and then beyond.

Let's go USA ! Time to score now in the first fifty seconds unlike many others recently where it has been in the last as many almost.

As unattainable as sun-bathing in Serbia

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/30/sports/worldcup/world-cup-2014-brazils-goalkeepers-finally-get-some-respect.html?smid=nytnow-share&smprod=nytnow&_r=0

A four year economic plan full of cheer!

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/26/upshot/why-you-should-root-for-nigeria-or-brazil-mexico-or-ghana.html

Heartbreak USA

So close to a win against Portugal. They were perhaps dazed from the spectacular recovery going one down into the last half hour to be scoring two in twenty minutes. They could have defended more in the last few minutes and lost the concentration a little at the very end, all very easy to say in hindsight. What a double irony it would have been for the groups of death and double-death, Costa Rica already in and at the top, England out leaving Italy and Uruguay to battle it out. USA would have been in first and Portugal out, but even right now looks impossible for Portugal to beat USA to second place with a win in the last game.

Going into the last minute or two my daughter said USA has won haven't they and while I wanted to say the same I uttered the more elderly "anything could happen" which came back haunting.