Open Thread
By bluegal Saturday Jan 03, 2009 8:30pm
P.J. O'Rourke, "Future Schlock" [Disney's new house of the future] at The Atlantic. Open Thread below...
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Foist!
But it was the Colts they played.
SD and Miami are the only AFC teams that matter...
Baltimore is the team to beat...Miami is a pale shadow of the team it once was. We shall crush them, making them cry like the little girls they are.
Why men love watching football games so much?
It just seems like such an incredible waste of time.
I've watched my share of football games and it seems to me that you've seen a few clipping tackles, a few interceptions, a few great throws, catches and interceptions, touch backs, off-side kicks...whatever....and you've seen them all!!
You can skip the hours of mind-numbing TV watching and catch the best parts of the games on the 11 o'clock news sports highlights! Save all the time and do something productive!
I wish I got it but I don't. I listen to all my sons and watch them engrossed in ESPN etc. forever betting and talking about point spreads and the over and the under.
What the hell am I missing here??
the news. You still wouldn't know anything but the scores. If you watch the MSM, you will only know who won at the end of the game the MSM and the right wing plays.
What are you missing? Not much. I think you pretty much summed it up. I might would add that a bunch of lazy pot bellied beer swilling talentless men who never really grew up would rather sit in a recliner and cheer on over paid athletes in a child's game that they themsleves are too damn lazy and talentless to participate in themselves. Besides, it's much easier than having to lay off the pork chops and beer, get in shape, go outside, and play it themselves.
I thought watching professional sports was for the thrill of hoping one of the vastly overpaid jocks actually hurt something? But I like the interviews the best out of the whole game. You know, where Joe Blow MultiGazillionaire tries to speak in coherent sentences so as not to totally tick off the university he supposedly graduated at.
Don't you guys enjoy any form of entertainment? No wonder some of you are so screwed up.
Entertainment? I like sex, is that wrong? I don't get paid millions, and I don't go on the 14 day disabled list for a hang nail, but I give her 110%!! And I can walk and chew gum at the same time without tripping!!
If you don't have any obsessions, why are you on the internet 12 hours a day?
I would argue some people are screwed up precisely BECAUSE they need entertainment.
"where Joe Blow MultiGazillionaire tries to speak in coherent sentences so as not to totally tick off the university he supposedly graduated at."
unless it's Florida State then they don't even try to pretend.
George Bush was a cheerleader at Yale and he can't speak in coherent sentences either.
When I was a kid, my older brother would actually cry if his beloved Redskins didn't win. I'm not kidding. Full tears, anguished, crying. I was always dumbfounded. You would've thought he owned the team or had just lost a bundle on a big bet.
Gunsandbigots, although a tad harsh, hits the nail pretty squarely on the head about sports fanatics. They truly are a weird bunch.
That must of been in the '70's when the St Louis Cardinals were kicking their ass!
a lot.
Now here's a great story about protesters outside Obama's house in Chicago...
Bet he's glad they'll be moving to D.C. in the next few days. (The kids need to be trotted off to their new schools Monday morning).
http://www.chicagobreakingnews.com/2009/01/ga...
Dear Football Widow:
1) If ya gotta ask, you ain't payin attention.
2) Liquor, food, male bonding, babes, male bonding, liquor, food, male bonding.
Glad I could help.
Now can we get some more nachos out here and are there any more margarita's left? And when are your girlfriends coming over, halftime's almost here and half these guys are single!!! *G*
Inquiring minds and all that ...
WOO-HOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
during the playoffs. That way I know I'll hear someone from the losing team cry while he talks to the press.
Call me sadistic, but there is some bit of happiness I take from watching multimillionaires playing a kid's game cry - CRY! - when they lose a football game.
"Gladiators" indeed...
on the two or three days a year when I do its a football game. For me part of it is just memories of being a kid. My father and I didn't have much in common but one thing we did like to do was watch football together every sunday. But part of it is that I think there is more strategy in football. In basketball, hockey, soccer its just get the ball in or through the net. In baseball, well baseball moves so slow I just fall asleeep. But in football every down consists of a bunch of choices both on offense and defense. Will they pass or run? Will the defense try to blitz? Etc. Plus there can be a lot of elegance in the way certain plays are executed, the way a wide received will leap to catch a pass for example or the way a running back will seem to be about to be tackled and then shake off defenders and keep going. There are also some players that are just fun to watch. Jim Mcmahon for example was amazing to watch both on and off the field as he argued with Ditka (the coach).
of what appears to be a white phosphorus shell fired into Gaza.
http://www.sott.net/articles/show/172089-Whit...
all over again.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/777549.html
Could you tell me again, what country's are using chemical and biological weapons again?
Iraq, Iran, Pakistan, Palestine?
Oh yea recent news seems to indicate USA has been using weapons of mass destruction, and Israel recently using, weapons of mass destruction, supplied by who?, USA!!!
I will be totally amazed if another country doesn't start bombing us in retaliation soon.(oh yea I am American)
Israel and the United States = worlds number 1 and 2 biggest terrorist states. Israel is a pawn of the US and does nothing without approval of US.
Although I don't want anyone to be bombed the sad fact is that no country really cares about the Palestinians. The Egyptians and other US allies are turning a blind eye or even cooperating with Israel.
12-year-old Arizona boy guilty in mom's shooting
11 hours ago
SIERRA VISTA, Ariz. (AP) — A 12-year-old boy who fatally shot his mother after an argument over his chores was found guilty of premeditated murder.
Judge James Conlogue found the boy guilty after a hearing Friday in Cochise County Superior Court in the southern Arizona town of Bisbee. The boy is not being identified because he was charged as a juvenile.
Conlogue ruled that prosecutors had proved the boy acted intentionally and with premeditation when he shot Sara Madrid, 34, eight times on Aug. 1. The shooting happened after the boy had argued with his mother over his chores.
Madrid had left the family home after the argument, and the boy got a .22-caliber pistol from her bedroom closet, waited for her to return and then repeatedly shot her, according to court testimony.
Madrid's live-in boyfriend of 10 years, Alfonso Munoz, witnessed the shooting and said the boy gave him the empty gun afterward.
Munoz, who helped raise the boy, said he had taught the child how to use the weapon for emergencies and self-defense.
The boy's lawyer, Sanford Edleman, had argued that the boy did not intend to kill his mother but only wanted to get back at her for abusing him.
I don't care what anyone says, Guns = Trouble. Especially in the hands of children. Jeebus.
Poverty causes dior situations.
who killed his dad up near Sedona a few months back.
Sad.
St. Johns is a couple hundred miles from Sedona, in the northeastern part of Arizona. And now this kid's lawyer (I know him; he's quite competent) is saying that the boy was railroaded into a confession and is incompetent to stand trial. I believe that's true on both counts, and that the mental health of the boy is and will continue to be very fragile for some time. Believe me, the cops in the small meth-addled and Mormon town of St. Johns are equally small-minded and the prosecutor sees this case as a springboard for politics. None of them even thought about doing the right thing.
How do you explain that one to your girlfriend 10 years down the road. "Johnny when are you going to introduce me to your mother?". "I can't, I shot her".
Boy, that could be a real date killer....excuse the pun.
Marines are short-changed on flak-jackets. Bush's personality revealed. Dunno if it still holds, but I got the following in the mail:
A Prius powers someone's house.
How to
survive a crappy health care system in a crappy economy.
I'm signed up (I wasn't sure if they would accept me, being a canuck) and have voted.
Yeah, Bush really is an intellect and deep down is just a good guy.
*puke*
The best game I ever played as a kid was playing baseball with a football instead of a baseball. Everything stayed the same except the fielders came in much closer and the pitcher had to pass the ball. Now ever time the ball was passed you were likely to hit it since there was nothing on the ball; it was too close even to put much spin on the ball. But you didn’t get a very solid hit so all the action was inside the diamond and the basemen would have to rush the ball which would hit the ground and go everywhere. Since the basemen came in to help the pitcher, the fielders would come in to cover the bases, but with almost every hit getting at least a base run, the action on the bases was like war.
One thing that was really good about it was that you could play with both boys and girls because all you had to be able to do is sort of bunt the ball; the ball would do all the work for you. It was hot, dirty, sweaty and the most fun I ever had with a team sport.
Playing football on a pond with a roll of paper towels. 2 on 2, one pair of skates per team. lol Best time ever!!!!!!!!
Looks like they're declaring him dead.
My father was an F-84 pilot shot down on his second mission over North Korea. After three years, he was declared "Missing-- presumed dead." This article suggests that the status on this Navy flier will set the precedent and I beg to differ. I also attended two national conferences on MIA/POW families of the era and know that it was the Vietnam-age families that forced the Pentagon to look more seriously at the issue instead of simply sweeping it under the rug.
To me, my daddy has always been simply MIA. Declaring him dead enabled my mother to remarry but it didn't actually answer any questions for me.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qkpYsVkW-n4
To a better year for all.
Frank Rich: A President Forgotten but Not Gone
in here! Too bad I'm not drunk yet; it will be even funnier.
Thanks for the link.
"The Administration improved security at our ports. Nearly 100 percent of cargo
containers that arrive at America’s ports are now screened for radiological and nuclear
threats, and the people who load and unload these containers are credentialed through
a special program. Through an international program, the vast majority of shipments
entering our ports are screened at foreign ports long before they dock in our waters."
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Really?? I don't think so...
"In the Holy
Land, President Bush became the first American President to support a two-state
solution with a democratic Israel and a democratic Palestine living side-by-side
in peace. And around the globe, President Bush more than doubled funding for the
promotion of democracy."
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A smashing success, eh?
"NCLB helped increase the percentage of first graders reading at grade level in 44 of 50 States."
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While I applaud first-graders being able to read "at grade level," the figures for other grades are conspicuously absent. Maybe just an oversight...
http://www.offroaders.com/album/centralia/cen...
A clean coal town burning for how many years now???
I wanted to add a link to the you-tube video page.
http://www.offroaders.com/album/centralia/mul...
Watched the Falcons lose last night - I guess it was going to either be this week or next week that they got it. Still a helluva season.
On another note, the link below leads to a few words from me to get the year started:
In My Own Backyard
Happy 2009!!
Democrat Al Franken now leads by 225 votes after adding 176 votes when absentee ballots were counted today in Minnesota
http://theuptake.org/
My advice to Al, don’t fly in small airplanes!
"Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, chairman of the National Republican Senatorial Committee, has said GOP members would filibuster any attempt by Democratic leaders to seat Franken early, even if he remains in the lead, until the certificate is signed."
http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/01/03/minnes...
Someone with a conspiracy bias would think that the Texas Senator may be helping for more reasons than party...(with apologies for the link to Faux Noise, but they have a pretty good write-up, I am sure it differs greatly from anything they broadcast...;o})
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2008/12/18/co...
fair and square--victory will be so much sweeter.
Any idea when this whole thing will be done? (Watched some of the recount on Uptake, but lost the connection part way through, and had trouble reconnecting later.)
officially expired.
"We are confident since there are no ballots left to count the final margin will stand with Al Franken having won the election by 225 votes," said Franken attorney Marc Elias.
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/A...
I think it's a toss up. If the U.S. is the dog, then Israel is the tail. And the tail is wagging the dog. And no, I'm not anti-Jewish, I think the country has a right to exist, but I also think Israel doesn't want to solve the problem with the Palestinians. I think it would be hard to argue against the idea that hard liners on both sides want the annihilation of the other. Bush did nothing to help, only aggravate. I don't know where Obama is. But nobody can expect the Palestinians to endure what they have forever.
I know I'll get a lot of hate for saying this but things have come full circle. The Israelis are so afraid of another Holocaust they have created something very similar for the Palestinians, with the U.S. as enablers. And the rest of the Arab World has assisted by not doing anything to stop this eternal conflict.
...has been on my shit list ever since This
...This
Waxman focuses on steroids in wrestling, when he should be doing something about the economy. The Vatican lies about birth control pills.
I always appreciate your dead-of-the-night links when sleep eludes.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090104/ap_on_re_...
Women's rights?
Here's what I have to say (sing) about that:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7PLzZ0XcLE
I recently wrote about high-school football here in Texas. I haven't recorded it yet, but it's a good 'un.
just incase you think obummers any different then bush when it comes to news reporters asking importent questions at press meetings watch obummer as he calls on certain reporters he picks not from looking at the hands held up by reporters but from a list he has in his hands and thoes reporters he picks asks pre selected questions that he has the answers written down and can look down on to give his answers to so he doesnt look like he dont know jack shit! government thats scripted , change he he !
Frank Rich gives Bush a proper "tribute" http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/04/opinion/04r...
http://www.miamiherald.com/news/miami-dade/br...
That's what you get when there are no professionals, just volunteers and celebrities. Suppose the infastructure construction will look like that if it supplies jobs to people that have never done road construction before?
Sure, he's a conservative, but he also edited the National Lampoon in it's glory days.
One of the few ways I got any positive attention in high school was thanks to the National Lampoon, I was the only kid around with a copy, and everyone wanted to check it out.
Conservatives, as a generality, aren't that funny-well, not intentionally-but O'Rourke is a true exception.
http://news.yahoo.com/nphotos/Rare-Bugatti-su...
Not my favorite decade of automobilia, but finding a classic is always cool.
The Bugatti looks a lot like the car Cruella de Vil drove.
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